637 quotes found
“A year ago I came here without a nickle in my pocket, now, I've got a nickle in my pocket.”
“Theres no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.”
“Charity is salt in the wound. It is painful. The state gives charity with the bitter hatred of a victim to his blackmailer. The receiver of free money is subjected to harassment, insult, and profou...”
“Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.”
“We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.”
“...One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be...”
“The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.”
“As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.”
“Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.”
“All sins are attempts to fill voids.”
“Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out...”
“You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.”
“He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.”
“We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.”
“All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are.”
“Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality. There is gracious accommodation, yet c...”
“Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.”
“She found it curious and frightening that she could deeply dislike someone she didnt even know. It wasnt her. At least, it wasnt how she used to be.”
“Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first - the story of our quest for sexual love - is well known and well charted, its vagaries form the staple of music an...”
“There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.”
