637 quotes found
“Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.”
“to live asubstance-freelife under thepressures ofthe daily grindis state-sponsoredsuicide”
“I hate forcing myself to go to bed to avoid committing suicide.”
“We shouldve thrown fucking riots the first time they had us ring up and bag our owngroceries”
“Once again, there was a terrorist attack inside my mouth.”
“If all goes well, we will be back in time for a proper memorial service [for your father], Ben. I promise."Ben looked up, and all the bitterness was gone from his eyes, replaced somehow by both res...”
“Have you ever wondered why you did not rapture and go to heaven the day you became a Christian? It is because God has work for you to do here on earth! Having gone to heaven, Jesus expects you to b...”
“Payne sought clarification. Vertical or horizontal?Horizontal, of course.Sorry but I cant help you. Will you pipe down for a minute? Naturally she was dead since I work at a cemetery. Her face stru...”
“And maybe thats was her biggest crime of all. Making him fall in love with her.”
“Fear is a scheme that the devil uses to great effect. From my personal study, the words do not be afraid or fear thee not (depending on the Bible translation) appear over one hundred times in the B...”
“Some people are hard to forget, but some people are hard to remember.”
“[What Rushdie took away from reading Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum]: Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the star...”
“This is how social change ultimately happens: enlightened values do not change behavior”
“When I was achild my worldwasnt blackand white,it was grey,until I gotbeat upenough timesto realizemy skin wasbeige, anddifferent”
“We'd better get. But y'all have a nice night,' I say. Apparently, fear turns me Texan. A startling personality insight that I'll jot down later if I'm not dead in a ditch.”
“Some days Imtrying to forcea smile sohard it feelslike I mightshit my pants”
“he wished he could have roots spreading under every inch of his lost soil, his beloved lost home, that he could have been part of something, that he could have been himself, walking down the road n...”
“The world is full of love stories, and all lovers are in a sense the avatars of their predecessors.”
“The night embraces me, cool and endless, and above me the stars are tiny holes in the darkness through which the light of eternity is pouring out. I can almost sense primordial stardust flowing thr...”
“God expects you to have the mentality of a conqueror. See yourself as a victor in Christ Jesus, and go about life with a holy swagger!”
