Quotes by Beck

“Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tid...”

“Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time would seem interminable. It should be so, but it is not. ...”

“It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people ...”

“I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people ...”

“But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine it loses its grip.”

“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.”

“Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. They’re all the time talkin...”

“It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary”

“Diana frowns. “You’re taking me home, right? You just said you would.” “Hoink hoink! Of course, piglet. But I meant your real home.” “Which, last I checked,” says Diana acidly, “is in Los Angeles, ...”

“Just like any civilized person, you’ve spent practically your whole life torturing an innocent wild creature. Starved it, then force-fed it, cut it, cursed it, driven it to exhaustion. Imprisoned i...”

“A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were ...”

“Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.”

“... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.”

“Courage and fear were one thing too.”

“Being a parent is joyful, but it's also haunted by the specter of loss.”

“The forms are many in which the unchanging seeks relief from its formlessness.”

“As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.”

“Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.”

“Perhaps the ache of homesickness was a fair price to pay for having so many good people in her life.”

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”