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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8a2dca4 | I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a bit. I mean really suffer, because you don't know what the word means yet. You only think you've suffered. You've got to fall in love first." | Henry Miller | ||
| feba208 | As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance. | Henry Miller | ||
| c3f0389 | I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral. | Henry Miller | ||
| 9c0268a | There is a theory that when a planet, like our earth for example, has manifested every form of life, when it has fulfilled itself to the point of exhaustion, it crumbles to bits and is dispersed like star dust throughout the universe. It does not roll on like a dead moon, but explodes, and in the space of a few minutes, there is not a trace of it visible in the heavens. In marine life we have a similar effect. it is called implosion. When a.. | Henry Miller | ||
| 4831ca4 | Begin this moment, wherever you find yourself, and take no thought of the morrow. Look not to Russia, China, India, not to Washington, not to the adjoining county, city or state, but to your immediate surroundings. Forget Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed and all the others. Do your part to the best of your ability, regardless of the consequences. Above all, do not wait for the next man to follow suit. | Henry Miller | ||
| f490fcb | Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world. | california ecology environment good-neighbors nature peace serenity | Henry Miller | |
| c32777b | The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. In this state of god-like awareness one sings; in this realm the world exists as poem. | Henry Miller | ||
| 22c1370 | New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there, the lepers, the thugs, and above all, the ennui, the monotony of faces, streets, legs, houses, skyscrapers, meals, posters, jobs, crimes, loves... A whole city erected over a hollow pit of nothingness. Meaningless. Absolute meaningless. | Henry Miller | ||
| b122b32 | Like every man I am my own worst enemy, but unlike most men I know too that I am my own saviour. | Henry Miller | ||
| 8b03c31 | Your nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for you to swim in. | Henry Miller | ||
| c409a95 | The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous. The language of society is conformity; the language of the creative individual is freedom. Life will continue to be a hell as long as people who make up the world shut their eyes to reality. | Henry Miller | ||
| e44fcd7 | In the days to come, when it will seem as if I were entombed, when the very firmament threatens to come crashing down upon my head, I shall be forced to abandon everything except what these spirits implanted in me. I shall be crushed, debased, humiliated. I shall be frustrated in every fiber of my being. I shall even take to howling like a dog. But I shall not be utterly lost! Eventually a day is to dawn when, glancing over my own life as t.. | Henry Miller | ||
| 0a37de1 | Love is possible only if two persons communicate with each other from the center of their existence, hence if each one of them experiences himself from the center of his existence. Only in this 'central experience" is human reality, only here is aliveness, only here is the basis for love. Love, experienced thus is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together...they are one with each other by being.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| ed35651 | If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to .. | despotism | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 0baa5c3 | The fact was that where Will is concerned, she was developing a new kind of sense, as if he were simply more in focus than anyone she'd known before. Everything about him was clear and close and immediate. | Philip Pullman | ||
| e644c25 | Rumors said that if he got drunk enough, he sometimes got his jollies by stripping naked and scaring hikers out in the Broken into thinking he was Bigfoot. | on-the-edge rose rumors | Ilona Andrews | |
| 073a96d | Death is forever. Death is nothing. But to save a life, that's everything. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 6d3fac9 | I want you to understand me. This isn't vengeance. This is punishment. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 611a11c | In there?' She nodded. 'You want us to go into the tortoise?' Another nod. 'It's alive.' Another nod. | kate kate-daniels magic-burns tortoise | Ilona Andrews | |
| 232cf10 | I've been assigned to bodyguard you." Derek snorted. Ascanio pretended not to hear it. "The Beast Lord spoke to me this morning. I'm responsible for your well-being, and if you get injured, I'll answer to him personally." Oh, that bastard. Found the kid an impossible job, did he? Derek laughed quietly. Ascanio finally deemed it necessary to acknowledge Derek's existence. "Is something funny?" "I don't even know you, and I feel sorry for you.. | derek kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| cd65ca1 | The first rule of etiquette a boy learns when he's about to enter society is that civility is due to all women. No provocation, no matter how unjust and rudely delivered, can validate a man who fails to treat a woman with anything less than utmost courtesy." The boys hung on his every word. He glanced in her direction. "I have met some incredibly unpleasant women, and I have never failed in this duty. But I must admit: your sister may prove.. | manners politeness | Ilona Andrews | |
| 7c5563f | As one, the shapechangers turned and looked at me. I wondered what they'd do if I asked to borrow a cup of sugar. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 3e7b8b4 | People view us and our vampires as abominations," Ghastek said. "They call the undead inhuman, not realizing the irony: only humans are capable of inhumanity. Four thousand years of technology, with magic shrinking to a mere trickle before the Shift, yet the world was just as evil then as it is now. It's not vampires or werewolves who committed the worst atrocities, but average people. They are the serial killers, the child rapists, the inq.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 4fdc49b | Did they think I would throw a tantrum?" "Baby, you're not the tantrum type. You are the scary-smile-and-stabbing type." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 95d91e0 | Something isn't right with you and this property. Strange things happen around it. I don't know what is going on, but I will find out. You could make it easier on yourself by coming clean." "Sure. This is a magic bed-and-breakfast and the two guys in my kitchen are aliens from outerspace." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 942686b | I can't believe I have to say this. You there, dashing male secretary! Drop the frying pan. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 3ca4c2e | Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart | Anonymous | ||
| bc966e4 | And whosoever fears Allah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty).And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine. | difficulty divorce duty fear source | Anonymous | |
| 6d98e76 | You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 0f838a7 | Citizens, in the future there will be neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance, nor bloody retaliation. As there will be no more Satan, there will be no more Michael. In the future no one will kill any one else, the earth will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, citizens, when all will be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it will come, and it is in order that it may come that we are ab.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 41105d9 | Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7293066 | The study was slowly lit up as the candle was brought in. The familiar details came out: the stag's horns, the bookshelves, the looking-glass, the stove with its ventilator, which had long wanted mending, his father's sofa, a large table, on the table an open book, a broken ash-tray, a manuscript-book with his handwriting. As he saw all this, there came over him for an instant a doubt of the possibility of arranging this new life, of which .. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 2b21a30 | Never, never marry, my friend. Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the woman you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 10ac530 | It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination." | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 40aff7b | I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 6b5ff8a | The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from each other - child out of the womb, friend away from friend, moving from each other, each through his own pathway towards the goal-box of solitary death. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 4359c0f | I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like the sternness and stillness of the world under this frost. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 25044f4 | care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more I will respect myself. I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. I will hold the principles received by me when I was sane, not mad -- as I am now. Laws and principles are not for times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be. If at my individ.. | morality principles steadfastness | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 98a54eb | My love has placed her little hand With noble faith in mine, And vowed that wedlock's sacred band Our nature shall entwine. My love has sworn, with sealing kiss, With me to live -- to die; I have at last my nameless bliss: As I love -- loved am I! | wedding | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 80d16b6 | You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 8f3e976 | I can't make you understand because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of a lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you both of those qualities. You'll never mind facing realities and you'll never want to escape from them as I do. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| d63cb88 | I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 8cbfb5a | All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 083c929 | I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back. | nostalgia pain | Margaret Mitchell |