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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3c4598a | They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends. Theirs was that substantial affection which arises (if any arises at all) when the two who are thrown together begin first by knowing the rougher sides of each other's character, and not the best till further on, the romance growing up in the interstices of a mass of hard prosaic reality. This good-fello.. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| bbd3fbe | To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction--every kind of evidence in the logician's list--have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite alone. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 0ab0522 | Here we suffer grief and pain, Here we meet to part again; In Heaven we part no more. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 6446148 | Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only - finding out that there is set down in some old book somebody just like me, and to know that I shall only act her part; making me sad, that's all. The best is not to remember your nature and your past doings have been just like thousands' and thousands', and that your coming life and doings'll be like thousands' and thousands'. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 08e06ab | They were as sublime as the moon and stars above them, and the moon ans stars were as ardent as they. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 58d4d66 | How strange and god-like was a composer's power, who from the grave could lead through sequences of emotion, which he alone had felt at first, a girl like her who had never heard of his name, and never would have a clue to his personality. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 1632511 | Justice" was done, and the President of the Immortals (in Aeschylean phrase) had ended his sport with Tess." | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 46d6df7 | I don't see why a maid should take a husband when she's bold enough to fight her own battles, | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 1240e7c | What a fool she must have been ever to have had anything to do with the man! | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 153e15e | Sometimes more bitterness is sown in five minutes than can be got rid of in a whole life; | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 6f1ca7e | Only a wall divided him from those happy young contemporaries of his with whom he shared a common mental life; men who had nothing to do from morning till night but to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. Only a wall--but what a wall! | Thomas Hardy | ||
| d4f89f8 | Jude continued his walk homeward alone, pondering so deeply that he forgot to feel timid. He suddenly grew older. It had been the yearning of his heart to find something to anchor on, to cling to--for some place which he could call admirable. Should he find that place in this city if he could get there? Would it be a spot in which, without fear of farmers, or hindrance, or ridicule, he could watch and wait, and set himself to some mighty un.. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 09d1658 | But you will never realize that an incident which filled but a degree in the circle of your thoughts covered the whole circumference of mine. No person can see exactly what and where another's horizon is. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 8e627fa | On a Fine Morning" in Poems of the Past and the Present (1901) WHENCE comes Solace?--Not from seeing What is doing, suffering, being, Not from noting Life's conditions, Nor from heeding Time's monitions; But in cleaving to the Dream, And in gazing at the gleam Whereby gray things golden seem. This do I this heyday, holding Shadows but as lights unfolding, As no specious show this moment With its iris-hued embowment; But as nothing ot.. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 3a7cfaf | For the love of men like Fitzpiers is unquestionably of such quality as to bear division and transference. He had indeed once declared, though not to her, that on one occasion he had noticed himself to be possessed by five distinct infatuations at the same time. If this were true, his differed from the highest affection as the lower orders of the animal world differ from advanced organisms, partition causing not death but a multiplied exist.. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 9564fef | I haven't got anything against cats. I haven't got anything against elk either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to keep one in the store so I'll have a place to hang my hat. | Lawrence Block | ||
| b5bba18 | People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things. | Lawrence Block | ||
| cbe9f7b | Culture is not trivial. It is not a decoration or artifice, the songs we sing or even the prayers we chant. It is a blanket of comfort that gives meaning to lives. It is a body of knowledge that allows the individual to make sense out of the infinite sensations of consciousness, to find meaning and order in a universe that ultimately has neither. Culture is a body of laws and traditions, a moral and ethical code that insulates a people from.. | culture | Wade Davis | |
| ce82988 | Amor de mis entranas, viva muerte, en vano espero tu palabra escrita y pienso, con la flor que se marchita, que si vivo sin mi quiero perderte. El aire es inmortal. La piedra inerte ni conoce la sombra ni la evita. Corazon interior no necesita la miel helada que la luna vierte. Pero yo te sufri. Rasgue mis venas, tigre y paloma, sobre tu cintura en duelo de mordiscos y azucenas. Llena pues de palabras mi locura | Federico García Lorca | ||
| b14f2fa | cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any monoprix store. it's built into all poor-quality goods. | Graham Greene | ||
| 2d36cb7 | His question reminded me of how easy he had been to deceive, so easy that he seemed to me almost a conniver at his wife's unfaithfulness, as the man who leaves loose banknotes in a hotel bedroom connives at theft, and I hated him for the very quality which had once helped my love. | unfaithfulness | Graham Greene | |
| faa6bad | O God, forgive me - I am a proud, lustful, greedy man. I have loved authority too much. These people are martyrs - protecting me with their own lives. They deserve a martyr to care for them - not a man like me, who loves all the wrong things. | Graham Greene | ||
| 377590a | Me? You are laughing at me. Put your hand here. This has no theology.' I mocked myself while I made love. I flung myself into pleasure like a suicide on to a pavement. | sex theology | Graham Greene | |
| 41127b8 | Pyle could see pain when it was in front of his eyes. (I don't write that as a sneer; there are so many of us who can't) | Graham Greene | ||
| 57c6474 | She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble. | Graham Greene | ||
| 9571b94 | The night may be dark and full of terrors, I thought, but I've got a big stick. | humor reference got | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 01007db | I thought. | tolkien-references wizards | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 1d1cede | There are people who have been touched by, let's call it for the sake of argument, magic to the point where they're no longer entirely people even under human rights legislation. Nightingale calls them the fae but that's a catch-all term like the way the Greeks used the word "barbarian" or the Daily Mail uses "Europe." | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 585c3f9 | sudden attack of culture snobbery is a common affliction among policemen of a certain rank and age; it's like a normal midlife crisis only with more chandeliers and foreign languages. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 9d0c985 | There are moments in history that seem like a mist, as if what really happens matters less that what should have happened. The mists lift suddenly and there we are, my good parents and their good children, their grateful children who phone for no reason but to talk, say their good-nights with a kiss, and look forward to home on the holidays. I see how, in a family like mine, love doesn't have to be earned and it can't be lost. Just for a mo.. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 0450b9f | The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and suffer and miss their trains. Of course actors regard audiences as enemies, to be deceived, drugged, incarcerated, stupefied. This is partly because the audience is also a court against which there is no appeal. | theatre actors audiences | Iris Murdoch | |
| 3027e33 | I think I fell in love with you when you were shouting at Romeo and Juliet, 'Don't touch each other!') | romeo-and-juliet | Iris Murdoch | |
| 618fae3 | I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move. | grief stillness | Iris Murdoch | |
| 00a5cad | Interviewer: "Andy do you feel that the public has insulted your art?" Andy Warhol: "Uh no." I: "Why not?" AW: "Uh well I hadn't thought about it." I: "It doesn't bother you at all then?" AW: "Uh no." I: "Well do you think that they have shown a lack of appreciation for what pop art means?" AW: "Uh no." I: "Andy do you think that pop art has sort of reached the point where it's becoming repetitious now?" AW: "Uh yes." I: "Do you think it sh.. | repetitive | Andy Warhol | |
| 9cfb678 | Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it. | romance fantasy love | Andy Warhol | |
| 5d399de | When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them. "A man is what he thinks about all day long." [Ralph Waldo Emerson] | Andy Warhol | ||
| de70e17 | The choice between James's vision of a Jewish religion anchored in the Law of Moses and derived from a Jewish nationalist who fought against Rome, and Paul's vision of a Roman religion that divorced itself from Jewish provincialism and required nothing for salvation save belief in Christ, was not a difficult one for the second and third generations of Jesus's followers to make. Two thousand years later, the Christ of Paul's creation has utt.. | jesus religion | Reza Aslan | |
| 30ba8cf | We live in an extremely anxious age in which the core of our beliefs has been undermined to a great extent by scientific thinking. People have a hunger for answers but an inability to formulate the questions, partly because of the short-term view of things that's encouraged by the media and partly because there seems to be no centre to which people can turn in order to see what the heart of the discussion is. I think this is a failure of ph.. | Roger Scruton | ||
| a166640 | Frightened people become angry people--as history teaches us again and again. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| da52dfa | if you look someone in the eye and call them a 'fat, worthless, syphilitic puddle of badger crap' it doesn't mean you don't like them. It can be - and often is - a term of endearment. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 7540218 | It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable. | christianity spirituality god philosophy reasonable jesus-shock theology crazy | Peter Kreeft | |
| 6f0d6d5 | Today, despite all of the gains we have made, neither men nor women have real choice. Until women have supportive employers and colleagues as well as partners who share family responsibilities, they don't have real choice. And until men are fully respected for contributing inside the home, they don't have real choice either. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| fcaae09 | I truly believe that the single most important career decision that a woman makes is whether she will have a life partner and who that partner is. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| b528b89 | I am more vulnerable than I thought, but much stronger than I ever imagined. | Sheryl Sandberg |