246 quotes found
“Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be.”
“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?”
“You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.”
“That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history.”
“That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.”
“But the only measure that he knows is desire desire for power and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it that having the Ring we may seek to dest...”
“Oppressors specialise in rasing wolves from amonst the sheep then together with the wolves devour the sheep”
“Nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to follow the path that leads to himself.”
“Years ago, when I was working on my master's thesis, I went to New York for a semester as an exchange student. What struck me most was the sky. On that side of the world, so far away from the North...”
“Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.”
“I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.”
“I am a shadow. I walk the wet roads under the dim light of the pale lamps, in the darkest hour of the cold dull nights.I walk past the silent graveyard of the dead memories, towards the city of cha...”
“I am more than less, but less than worthy. Worthy to be heard, but heard in silence”
“It is the darkness that makes the light visible, and not the other way around.”
“You are never listening to what someone is saying, you are only ever listening to what you are hearing”
“While food makes us live, stories are what make our lives worth living.”
“Guys, close your eyes.Imagine you have a daughter. Imagine she is dating a guy like you. Did you smile? No?Then change.”
“Who knows why our kids do what they do? All we can do is just love them." - Fenella”
“We might feel we have achieved a lot. . just take a pause and look back. . We will see only darkness....”
“Were beings towards death, were featherless two-legged linguistically conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose bodies will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms. Thats us.”
