15 quotes found
“Oh how I hate people!”
“Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.”
“Why break the heart that never beat from love?”
“For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.”
“Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.”
“He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.”
“It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others. He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt. But on an occasion such as this it was different,...”
“Steerpike of the Many Problems, said the Doctor. What did you say they were? My memory is so very untrustworthy. Its as fickle as a fox. Ask me to name the third lateral bloodvessel from the extrem...”
“From daybreak to sunset she turned her thoughts, like boulders, over. She set them in long lines. She rearranged their order...”
“His was not the hatred that arises suddenly like a storm and as suddenly abates. It was, once the initial shock of anger and pain was over, a calculated thing that grew in a bloodless way.”
“How's the blood-stream, my dear, invaluable little woman? How's the blood-stream?"..."It's quite comfortable, sir...I think, sir, thank yo”
“And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them?”
“What is Time, O sister of similar features, that you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that secondhand overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that fatuous circle ...”
“In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible f...”
“Steerpike of the Many Problems,” said the Doctor. “What did you say they were? My memory is so very untrustworthy. It’s as fickle as a fox. Ask me to name the third lateral bloodvessel from the ext...”
