54 quotes found
“We learn from failure, not from success!”
“Do not think that I am not sad, though I laugh.”
“He came back full of life and hope and determination.”
“Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.”
“ for I determined that if Death came he should find me ready”
“And when he had crossed the bridge, the phantoms came to meet him.”
“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”
“Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”
“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
“But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.”
“Some of the 'New Women' writers will some day start an idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other asleep before proposing or accepting. But I suppose the New Woman won't condescend...”
“She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.”
“These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmengive themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created ...”
“Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.”
“Fe es aquello que nos permite creer en cosas que sabemos que no son ciertas.”
“It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the...”
“Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.”
“I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.”
“What a fine fellow is Quincey! I believe in my heart of hearts that he suffered as much about Lucys death as any of us, but he bore himself through it like a moral Viking. If America can go on bree...”
“Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker”
“Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be...”
“I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same. Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door an...”
“Faith, that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.”
“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”
