625 quotes found
“Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his souls possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep...”
“...you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critic...”
“You're like a gem shining ever brightly in an ever dimming world.”
“Study the nature around you, but also within you.”
“When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.”
“My mother's journals are a shadow play with mine. I am a woman wedded to words. Words cast a shadow. Without a shadow there is no depth. Without a shadow there is no substance. If we have no shadow...”
“It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable.”
“we all make vows, Jimmy. And there is something very beautiful and touching and noble about wanting good impulses to be permanent and true forever," she said. "Most of us stand up and vow to love, ...”
“A story meant to motivate all and sundry irrespective of their circumstances”
“I was a reader before I was a writer, and when I started putting together my first collection of short stories, Fairytales For Lost Children, I drew on my rich history as a reader to try and create...”
“Self under self, a pile of selves I standThreaded on time, and with metaphysic handLift the farm like a lid and seeFarm within farm, and in the centre, me.”
“We all have to live with our past, but it doesnt have to define us.”
“Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the words 'Be still'. What does stillness mean? It means destroy yourself. Becaus...”
“The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows”
“Time is the enemy of identity”
“Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.”
“In spite of the three hours I spent combing over the details, I have, to this day, a very persistent certainty that hidden inside me is the revolting knowledge of days when I wasn't quite myself. I...”
“Memory, of course, is unreliable, often evil, but it is the source of our identity."--Tennessee Williams”
“But it was enough if, in my own bed, my sleep was deep and allowed my mind to relax entirely; then it would let go of the map of the place where I had fallen asleep and, when I woke in the middle o...”
“Ive been thinking about it, since you said it, said Seivarden. No, said Mercy of Kalr. And Ive concluded that I dont want to be a captain. But I find I like the thought that I could be.”
