188 quotes found
“Of course. I am well aware that the streets of New York are not safe, but then there is no longer any place in the world which is safe. One cannot live in perpetual fear, one has to be as prudent a...”
“The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.”
“Being alive hurts. I have found it best not to rush for the aspirin bottle. - A Severed Wasp”
“Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.I have sent up my gladness on wings, to be lost in the blue of the sky.I have run and leaped with the rain, I have taken the wind to my brea...”
“Once you taste a little of the sweetness that life can be, there really is no going back.”
“My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...”
“You can't force feed a fool. They are blind to their need.”
“We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.”
“Advice," Doña Vorchenza chuckled. "Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at se...”
“I’m just saying it doesn’t always have to be spirits and magic. Sometimes hauntings are in your mind. It doesn’t make them less real.”
“Little matters much and much doesn't matter at all.”
“If you want to leave your footprints in the sands of time you'll need some roughness and some dirt.”
“Life is a physics problem. Bodies in motion.”
“I could not have asked for a better friends or a better life, but there’s a nasty trick about living. It happens at its own pace and in its own way and you never, never know what’s coming next. So ...”
“It was awful, he cried, awful, awful!Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.”
“Human relationships were strange. I mean, you were with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stopped. Then ...”
“He looks like a ghost, haunted by a life suddenly torn away, and I don’t know how to comfort him.”
“One, you moved here with your father, which means your a daddy's girl. No girl leaves their mother unless they are.”
“If you can’t change your situation, change the way you think. Everything comes from our mind. Every decision, emotion and effort. So in order to change your mood, change your perspective. Happiness...”
“It was too long ago; she couldn’t recall the feelings of love, only remember that she’d had them. A dried-out memory, like a flower pressed between the pages of a book.”
