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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6c7e88e | If he could communicate to her with his body, perhaps he failed to see the need to communicate with words. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| d04d6d5 | He knew he lived in hell. He accepted it. He rarely complained. But truth be told, he desperately wished he could make his escape. His prayers went unanswered, and his plans for reform were almost always thwarted by something or other. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 6ab5203 | Durante estos meses no ha habido nadie mas --asevero--. No queria a nadie que no fueras tu. Pero si me dijeras que te has enamorado de otra persona y que eres feliz, no insistiria. Por mucho que me doliera. --Hizo una mueca y susurro--: Siempre te querre, Julianne, me quieras tu o no. Eres mi cielo. Y mi infierno. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 6660ff2 | JULIANNE, MI AMADA, ES MIA Y YO SOY SUYO. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| f72f826 | Hell is knowing your fate and knowing there isn't a damn thing you can do about it. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 646a069 | Evil had its own logic and it was not something he, given his own moral code, would ever understand. And humans think we are monsters. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 9a6d1de | Dante's notions of sin are shaped largely by the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas. In his famous Summa Theologiae, Aquinas argues that any evil action or sin is a form of self-destruction. He assumes that human beings have a nature that is supposed to be rational and good. Aquinas conceives of this nature, that of the rational animal, as being created by God specifically to pursue goodness, more specifically, the virtues. When a human being d.. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 274b93b | In Dante's philosophy, lust is a misplaced love, but a kind of love nonetheless. For this reason, it is the least evil of the seven deadly sins. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 6c3d0fb | Some grief is so great, it can't be felt; it can only be observed. Or denied. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 74968d0 | so long as we each focus only on our individual decisions and their short-term consequences, we will act like renters, not owners of this Earth. | Bill Nye | ||
| 2437362 | If you're a creationist reading this, and you want to remark something like, "Well, that's the way he did it," I'll tell you right back, that is just not reasonable, nor is it satisfactory. If we were playing on a team right now, I'd say, "Get your head in the game." | Bill Nye | ||
| bd9ae74 | One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways. | poets | Helen Vendler | |
| 4e1d316 | The ruinous deeds of the ravaging foe (Beowulf) The best-known long text in Old English is the epic poem Beowulf. Beowulf himself is a classic hero, who comes from afar. He has defeated the mortal enemy of the area - the monster Grendel - and has thus made the territory safe for its people. The people and the setting are both Germanic. The poem recalls a shared heroic past, somewhere in the general consciousness of the audience who would he.. | Ronald Carter | ||
| d16adcb | Then I thought of the tribe whose dances never fail / For they keep dancing till they sight the deer. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| a32364f | More than loud acclaim, I love Books, silence, thought, my alcove. | irish poem | Seamus Heaney | |
| c48eb30 | Evil is usually attractive, because evil is defiant. | Angela Carter | ||
| 462d480 | In every one of us is the total of all we have ever been, the sullen child, the arrogant youth, the suckling babe. Every fear endured in childhood is lodged somewhere in here.' He tapped his temple. 'And every act of heroism or cowardice, generosity or meanness of spirit. | David Gemmell | ||
| f5bda64 | Love requires a different kind of courage, Andromache. | David Gemmell | ||
| 114326d | Get rid of your doubts. Yesterday is dead. Past mistakes are like smoke in the breeze. | David Gemmell | ||
| ada5583 | But as it turned out, the two had a great deal in common, for both Bailey and Thackeray (named for the famous novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, author of Vanity Fair) were devoted bibliophiles who believed that "a book a day kept the world at bay," as Thackeray was fond of saying. Bailey was the offspring of a generation of badgers who insisted that "Reader" was the most rewarding vocation to which a virtuous badger might be called and .. | Susan Wittig Albert | ||
| fe53a49 | Everything went black in the shocking folds of his embrace. She was very startled and near to sobbing. 'Caw, caw,' echoed his raincoat. 'Don't be frightened,' he said. 'It is only poor Finn, who will do you no harm.' She recovered herself a little, though she was still trembling. She could see her own face reflected in little in the black pupils of his subaqueous eyes. She still looked the same. She saluted herself. He was only a little tal.. | Angela Carter | ||
| cbfa984 | Wherein does a woman's honour reside, old chap? In her vagina or in her spirit? | Angela Carter | ||
| d958563 | To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE | Julia Cameron | ||
| 770316c | Function and man appear synonymous because the function can only be pointed toward by being the function. There is no being except in a mode of being. [...] Both scholar and Christian are functioning in identical ways, just under different metaphor, and both are evading the mechanics of being. | Joseph Chilton Pearce | ||
| 1d816ca | it is always easy, as well as agreeable, for the the inferior ranks of mankind to claim a merit from the contempt of that pomp and pleasure, which fortune has placed beyond their reach. The virtue of the primitive Christians, like that of the first Romans, was very frequently guarded by poverty and ignorance. | rome | Edward Gibbon | |
| 6de9616 | Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and the people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedoms. | hypocrisy submission tyranny | Edward Gibbon | |
| b7b193e | he forgot that the best of omens is to unsheathe our sword in the defence of our country. | Edward Gibbon | ||
| 7dfb78c | The uncommon abilities and fortune of Severus have induced an elegant historian to compare him with the first and greatest of the Caesars. The parallel is, at least, imperfect. Where shall we find, in the character of Severus, the commanding superiority of the soul, the generous clemency, and the various genius, which could reconcile and unite the love of pleasure, the thirst of knowledge, and the fire of ambition? 44 44 Though it is not, m.. | Edward Gibbon | ||
| dffb4b3 | The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. | Edward Gibbon | ||
| 897a8c0 | She is why purgatory was invented. | Ann-Marie MacDonald | ||
| 6d43345 | What's important is the ambition that results from our weakness. | life weakness | Sharon Creech | |
| d974159 | I think Mr. Robert Frost has a little too much time on his hands. | Sharon Creech | ||
| 4901d08 | The only evil is that I don't mind that it happened. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| c2c6067 | You have a girlfriend?" said Brian. "You never told us." "I'm not going to tell you now either. Don't tell Mom and Dad, don't tell Jodie, don't tell Bren." "Why not?" said Brian. "Mom and Dad would be thrilled. Unless she's some disgusting skank leading you down a sick and twisted path." | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 308039a | I wrote every day throughout my twenties. For a while, I had a boyfriend who was a musician, and he practiced every day. He played scales; I wrote small fictional scenes. It was the same idea - to keep your hand in your craft, to stay close to it. On bad days, when I felt no inspiration at all, I would set the kitchen timer for thirty minutes and make myself sit there and scribble something, anything. I had read an interview with John Updik.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2df3365 | This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. This, in part, is how we become annexes of each other, trellises on which each other's biography can grow. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f9f7ce3 | We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and morality. We wrongly believe that our limited little egos constitute our whole entire nature. We have failed to recognize our deeper divine character. We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme Self who is eternally at peace. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a64e0a7 | But whenever I see it happen, I always want to say the same thing. Good luck. Because you still have a woman in front of you, my friend. And you are still a man. It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to become complicated. And love is always complicated. But still humans must try to love each other, darling. We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried f.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 949a99d | Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f7a8874 | What was there for Harper Lee to be afraid of, after all? Possibly just this: That she could not outdo Harper Lee.) | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f504f2e | When I sit in my silence and look at my mind, it is only questions of longing and control that emerge to agitate me, and this agitation is what keeps me from evolving forward. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| bbf4262 | First spouses, I have learned, don't ever really go away--even if you aren't speaking to them anymore. They are phantoms who dwell in the corners of our new love stories, never entirely vanishing from sight, materializing in our minds whenever they please, offering up unwelcome comments or bits of painfully accurate criticism. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| fa48e7c | Gratitude, always. Always, gratitude. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ea1b14d | And maybe it's like that with every important aspect of your life. Whatever it is you are pursuing, whatever it is you are seeking, whatever it is you are creating, be careful not to quit too soon. | Elizabeth Gilbert |