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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a57016e | Time cannot be broken; that is our greatest burden. And our greatest challenge is to live in spite of that burden. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 57e7ce7 | You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 8071347 | In fact, the sickness I was suffering from was that I had been driven out of the paradise of childhood and had not found my place in the world of adults. I had set myself up in the absolute in order to gaze down upon this world which was rejecting me; now, if I wanted to act, to write a book, to express myself, I would have to go back down there: but my contempt had annihilated it, and I could see nothing but emptiness. The fact is that I h.. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| daecfe7 | As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it. | existentialism philosophers | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| 762099a | Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold. | prophets unheeded-predictions | Neil Gaiman | |
| ffe1336 | By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run and the world would wake into itself again. Not that year. Winter hung in there, like an invalid refusing to die. Day after grey day the ice stayed hard; the world remained unfriendly and cold. | ice march snow spring thaw winter | Neil Gaiman | |
| 74565e9 | You can no more read the same book again than you can step into the same river. | river | Neil Gaiman | |
| 722c3b6 | Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut. | metaphor rumors truth | Neil Gaiman | |
| c3000dd | He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly heroes of the penny dreadfuls and shilling novels never had these problems getting kissed. | novels | Neil Gaiman | |
| 554156e | Nothin' wrong with witchfinding. I'd like to be a witchfinder. It's just, well, you've got to take it in turns. Today we'll go out witchfinding, an' tomorrow we could hide, an' it'd be the witches' turn to find US. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| c5bf580 | Richard wondered how the marquis managed to make being pushed around in a wheelchair look like a romantic and swashbuckling thing to do. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 2260e67 | I remembered something somebody had once said to me. It's okay. Everyday is freshly ground. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| cd640fc | If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away. | letting-go parenting | Neil Gaiman | |
| 1df041f | No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. There was nothing as complex in the world - no flower or stone - as a single hello from a human being. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 6bfbaf1 | This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance. | doctrine hospitality nature rights | Robert Green Ingersoll | |
| 9142939 | I'm in love with hope. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 5d8ed59 | Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, "All right, it's just fear, I don't have to let it control me. I see it for what it is"." | fear help immersion truth-inspirational | Mitch Albom | |
| a3a8751 | Get off my planet, you son of a bitch. | John Scalzi | ||
| 9fd521d | The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| fde3cc8 | Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don't tell you about. They close their eyes, raise their eyebrows into accent marks, and make sounds of acute appreciation. It's fairly sexy. Of course I don't know how these men behave at home, if they help with the cooking or are vain and boorish and mistreat their wives. I realized Mediterranean cultures have their issues. Fine, don't burst my bubble. I .. | food italy mediterranean | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 79ebba3 | I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a2c1f68 | Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong. | Matthew Scully | ||
| 29484b2 | Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| a5372af | God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us. | game god hands life | Jeannette Walls | |
| 54ed843 | Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 708cbef | That crazy bastard may be the only sane one left. | Joseph Heller | ||
| f92a056 | You're like the cute version of the village idiot. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 6697b6a | Emotions that are forced always end in tragedy | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| f537009 | As a result, gender is not to culture as sex is to nature; gender is also the discursive/cultural means by which "sexed nature" or "a natural sex" is produced and established as "prediscursive," prior to culture, a politically neutral surface on which culture acts" | Judith Butler | ||
| 3ce7bb8 | it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch. | art immortality | Donna Tartt | |
| 1a282a9 | I'm crazy about this City. Daylight slants like a razor cutting the buildings in half. In the top half I see looking faces and it's not easy to tell which are people, which the work of stonemasons. Below is shadow where any blase thing takes place: clarinets and lovemaking, fists and the voices of sorrowful women. A city like this one makes me dream tall and feel in on things. Hep. It's the bright steel rocking above the shade below that d.. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 12e6b94 | The Lord will provide. | heartwarming inspirational | Francine Rivers | |
| 8c79f2e | Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end. Before we get it we live in a continuous present, and imagine the future as more of that present. Happiness is endless happiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain. | Tobias Wolff | ||
| d5c2a19 | And to the casual observer it looks like I have moved on since I go around wearing my little happy mask all day. I smile and laugh and carry on like my heart's still in one piece, but beneath it all, I am dying. | Melody Carlson | ||
| da90f74 | No, really, Herr Nietzche, I have great admiration for you. Sympathy. You want to make us able to live with the void. Not lie ourselves into good-naturedness, trust, ordinary middling human considerations, but to question as has never been questioned before, relentlessly, with iron determination, into evil, through evil, past evil, accepting no abject comfort. The most absolute, the most piercing questions. Rejecting mankind as it is, that .. | Saul Bellow | ||
| 85deba8 | A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven. | Chaim Potok | ||
| bfb0796 | How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich." | feathers specialists zurich | Woody Allen | |
| 1195e22 | If only I can find him... the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn't I expect it in a man? | love man | Sylvia Plath | |
| 8a7f0ac | I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between...I am still so naive; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don't ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe? | contrary depression manic-depression | Sylvia Plath | |
| 3a89550 | Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 82c1988 | And, I think: I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence. Of the millions, I, too, was potentially everything at birth. I, too, was stunted, narrowed, warped, by my environment, my outcroppings of heredity. I, too, will find a set of beliefs, of standards to live by, yet the very satisfaction of finding them will be marred by the fact that I have reached the ultimate in shallow, two-.. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| fffd000 | What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 8185950 | Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness. | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| 4cc730d | I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality. | longing love reality | Orhan Pamuk |