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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
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| c86d402 | We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure in the endless repetition of the beautiful, poetic, and absurd. We find, in all these records of the past, philosophies and dreams, and efforts stained with tears, of great and tender souls who tried to pierce the mystery of life and death, to answer the eternal questions of the Whence and Whither, and vainly sought to make, .. | autumn beautiful birth brave death delight deny doubt dreams effort eternity fable fairy fear gods grief hateful haunted hope joy king-lear lake life love mountains music mystery nature pagan passion past perfection philosophies pleasure poetic punishment questions religion-myths sacred-books scorn shakespeare smiles spring summer tears tender thought throne true truth william-shakespeare winter woods | Robert G. Ingersoll | |
| 5c25195 | Love is familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love." -" | William Shakespeare | ||
| 84ecca5 | Romeo, Romeo. Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 26bedbd | Where lies your text? In Orsino's bosom. In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom? To answer by the method, in the first of his heart. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 1235eac | what ho, apothecary! | romeo-and-juliet william-shakespeare | William Shakespeare | |
| 3c0da9f | Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, Remembers me of his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form | William Shakespeare | ||
| ce23e71 | There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers. | William Shakespeare | ||
| b7915e9 | But screw your courage to the sticking place, and we'll not fail. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 5d9ea9e | But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time's fool, And Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop. | hotspur time | William Shakespeare | |
| e36a28e | O, it is excellent To have a giant's strenght, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 939f08b | Brabantio: "You are a villain!" Iago: "You are a senator!" | William Shakespeare | ||
| 5a9c5a0 | What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts... | sleep the-tempest | William Shakespeare | |
| a4076fa | But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. | William Shakespeare | ||
| f3f4998 | Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, writes it, builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, | george-washington james-watt phidias raphael shakespeare washington watt william-shakespeare wren | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| 5ff3712 | Thou truly art in jest. Art thou not small/Of stature, if thou art a stormtrooper? -Leia Organa | Ian Doescher | ||
| c4e8154 | When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner | meekness persuasion | William Shakespeare | |
| 8177f34 | a wild dedication of yourselves To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 068ba60 | I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet. | Henry James | ||
| a6055ad | The beauty of truth is that it need not be proclaimed or believed. It skips from soul to soul, changing form each time it touches, but it is what it is, I have seen it, and someday you will, too. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 1cbb88c | Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. | breaking-patterns creative creativity patterns thinking-differently | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 588ef33 | Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 94cddb6 | Finding meaning, like losing meaning, involves pleasure as well as pain. But then losing meaning, like finding it, does too, as the best nonsense reminds us. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| ab8685a | The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright-- And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night. The moon was shining sulkily, Because she thought the sun Had got no business to be there After the day was done-- "It's very rude of him," she said, "To come and spoil the fun!" The sea was wet as wet could be, The sands were dry as dry. You could not see a.. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 8f70572 | you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 8eeb93e | Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| b5004c1 | You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect. | pleasure tragedy | Lawrence Durrell | |
| ffa7b26 | The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| 2285a7f | Art--the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory. | meaning meaning-of-life pain reality | Lawrence Durrell | |
| f627dd8 | Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| 6648a29 | We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 1ece267 | Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm. | stupidity | Carl Hiaasen | |
| 170ab91 | Oh, it's okay," I say quickly, letting go of the figurine. "You can touch anything of mine you want." He freezes. A funny look runs across his face before I realize what I've said, I didn't mean it like that. Not that that would be so bad." -- | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| b386731 | For once in your life, listen to your younger sister. She's taller, and she knows better than you | sisters | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 50b2301 | It's often suggested that as a culture, we're only interested in immediate gratification. Fast food. Self-checkout. Downloadable music, movies, books. Instant coffee, instant rebates, instant messaging. Instant weight loss! Shall I go on? | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| f8b93ac | I know. And I couldn't wait any longer, I have to tell you - " The panic rises, and I grip the French band tighter. "Cricket, please -" But his words pour forth in a torrent. "I can't stop thinking about you, and I'm not the guy I used to be, I've changed -" "Cricket -" I look back up, feeling faint. His blue eyes are bright. Sincere. Desperate. "Go out with me tonight. Tomorrow night, every ni -" The words cut off in his throat as he sees .. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 03ea412 | I don't care about anything. But I care about you. | isla-and-the-happily-ever-after love love-quotes sweet | Stephanie Perkins | |
| ec5eb52 | Perfection is overrated. Perfection is boring | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| ee53f6f | Some of us wear our hearts. Some of us carry them. | eli-and-gracie leigh-bardugo live summer | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 8a3d3ff | It says that whenever people cross our paths, there is always a message for us. Chance encounters do not exist. But how we respond to these encounters determines whether we're able to receive the message. If we have a conversation with someone who crosses our path and we do not see a message pertaining to our current questions, it does not mean there was no message. It only means we missed it for some reason. | James Redfield | ||
| c7a6470 | Fang (sarcasticaly): Go pick out a tree and I'll carve our initials in it. Max: (screams and goes in the bathroom) | James Patterson | ||
| 7a034b8 | Glaring at the Gasman, ter Borcht said, "Your time is coming to an end, you pathetic failure of an experiment. Vhat you say now is how you vill be remembered." Gazzy's blue eyes flashed. "Then you can remember me telling you to kiss my-" "Enough!" ter Borcht said." | badass cool-response death end funny gazzy-i-love-u good-guy lol | James Patterson | |
| d77ee47 | Walking over to Iggy, he poked him with his shoe. "Does anysing on you vork properly?" Iggy rubbed his forehead with one hand. "Well, I have a highly developed sense of irony." | James Patterson | ||
| 2c23491 | Blood City III: The Massacre. I'd read the summary of it online, and frankly, it sounded like the directors had just decided to film my life. | James Patterson |