310 quotes found
“Time is a daunting thing; it’s inescapable. Some moments pass unobserved and others stay with us, remaining frozen, lasting a lifetime...”
“It’s only a cut, a reminder of this day. A reminder to ask every day, Why am I doing this?”
“In that pallid and sullen shadow in which he crawled, whenever he turned his head and endeavoured to raise his eyes, he saw, with mingled rage and terror, forming, massing, and mounting up out of s...”
“Honesty is admired, and starves.”
“Even in the privacy of our own thoughts, we can’t sow lies and reap truth.”
“As human beings, our first commandment is:Something needs to happen”
“Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act. Nothing arouses a passi...”
“Things are neither good nor bad , all that matters is our thinking....!”
“The May sunshine makes both the trolls and the elves disappear, he thought. They burst like soap bubbles. Only human beings remain, for a little while. We are a brief song beneath the sky, laughter...”
“The ritual works. The forms overcome doubts. We have learned over the centuries to weave meaning around emptiness and pain. A meaning and a pattern. We have been practising that for a very long time.”
