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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 118fcfd | Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell. | hell hypocrites love | Truman Capote | |
| 2047841 | Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in. | luxury | Edith Wharton | |
| 437f733 | Poetry and art are the breath of life to her. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 6e25441 | At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - relief or despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking - 'wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant! | dr-who shada | Gareth Roberts | |
| 8051d60 | For as long as he could remember, he'd suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there. | Douglas Adams | ||
| ab7d5af | Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first impulse, standing on a cliff top surveying it all, is simply to burst into spontaneous applause. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 2604d4f | Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?" "I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is." | computers humor meaning-of-life | Douglas Adams | |
| bc97e17 | Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others. | Douglas Adams | ||
| e5f9fa5 | You know," said Arthur thoughtfully, "all this explains a lot of things. All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was." "No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that." | Douglas Adams | ||
| 469abaf | The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. Somebody did once look at his watch, but that was eleven years ago now, and there has been no follow up. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 5337a78 | You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh Well, business as usual , I suppose. | advice | Douglas Adams | |
| 63d8444 | There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches? | Douglas Adams | ||
| da85597 | The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look of serenely innocent incomprehension that makes you want to hug it and tell it that everything will be all right, thought you know that it probably will not be. | kakapo science | Douglas Adams | |
| 405cb4d | Zaphod Beeblebrox crawled bravely along a tunnel, like the hell of a guy he was. He was very confused, but he continued crawling doggedly anyway because he was that brave. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 2587b65 | When the girl sitting at the next table looked away from a moment, Dirk leaned over and took her coffee. He knew that he was perfectly safe doing this because she would simply not be able to believe that this had happened. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 4a529c9 | That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party. | pippin quote | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| b3e75bb | I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation, the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other, and the thing is, it'd be a much better game for it. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 7a97a17 | I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 8cdad1c | Never is too long a word even for me... | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| ea641be | Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother's elder brother. | death heroic life | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 93e417f | Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens,'said Gimli. 'Maybe,'said Elrond,'but let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall. | wisdom | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 0bb92f2 | Yes, that's so,' said Sam. 'And we shouldn't be here at all, if we'd known more about it before we started. But I suppose it's often that way. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventures, as I used to call them. I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might sa.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 41219e3 | Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and disappointment than they do to the exceptionally gifted who, with the confidence of the talents bestowed upon them, often pursue the tasks leading to success with less determination. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| de740e3 | No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read. | writing | David McCullough | |
| 124f04e | Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts. | Herman Melville | ||
| 6ec833e | Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before death is what counts. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 582a0a4 | How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and w.. | bombs books cave classism forgotten fun hate history history-repeating-itself ignorance mistakes poor rich starving uncaring war | Ray Bradbury | |
| 0ddeaec | It is tragic to see how the religious sentiment of the West has become so individualized that concepts such as "a contrite heart," have come to refer only to the personal experiences of guilt and willingness to do penance for it. The awareness of our impurity in thoughts, words and deeds can indeed put us in a remorseful mood and create in us the hope for a forgiving gesture. But if the catastrophical events of our days, the wars, mass murd.. | heart pious | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 24aa716 | The man who articulate the movements of his inner life, who can give names to his varied experiences, need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering. He is able to create space for Him who heart is greater than his, whose eyes see more than his, and whose hands can heal more than his. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 3f5eb4c | The world is evil only when you become its slave. | sin | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 34b17a3 | The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| d08abfe | You often say,'I would give, but only to the deserving.' The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| f00abfe | Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| 59a09a3 | Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| 0802171 | Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. And therefore, this courage allows us, as the old men said, to make ourselves useful. It allo.. | brave courage generous giving grace kindness life love stewardship | Marilynne Robinson | |
| 167671b | It is possible to know the great truths without feeling the truth of them. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| 1c157cc | She closed one eye and looked at me and said, "I know there is a blessing in this somewhere." It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. Another reason why you must be careful of your health." | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| 4e17004 | The Lord is more constant and far more extravagant than it seems to imply. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration. You don't have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see. Only, who could have the courage to see it? | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| 48abc48 | Being wrong about important things is exhausting. | John Irving | ||
| f58476e | Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 2261cfa | Later, her first intense, serious love affair, yes then she'd lost something more tangible, if undefinable: her heart? her independence? her control of, definition of, self? That first true loss, the furious bafflement of it. And never again quite so assured, confident. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 7053c16 | The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother. | motherhood parenting | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| 8941f41 | I thought there's something to be said for honor in this world where there doesn't seem to be any honor left. I thought that maybe happiness wasn't really anything more than the knowledge of a life well spent, in spite of whatever immediate discomfort you had to undergo, and that if a life well spent meant compromises and conciliations and reconciliations, and suffering at the hands of the person you love, well then better that than live wi.. | William Styron | ||
| 7f03d81 | We each devise our means of escape from the intolerable. | William Styron |