Quotes by Writers - Page 4

It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.
Ricky Gervais
We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.
José Saramago
There is no such thing as a perfect drawing, especially if you're ametur.
Mark Crilley
It's a rotten world, Miss Millick,' said Mr. Wran, talking at the window. 'Fit for another morbid growth of superstition. It's time the ghosts, or whatever you call them, took over and began a rule of fear, They'd be no worse than men.' ("Smoke Ghost")
Fritz Leiber
Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.
Denis de Rougemont
‎The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Since a politician never believes what he says he is surprised when others believe him.
Charles de Gaulle
Worrying about something you can't control has less benefit than a mosquito's existence.
Mark Cortes
Don’t be afraid to do weird stuff, so long as you do it cheaply and cover everyone’s bets. Be bold. Be stupid, if you have to: so long as you don’t hurt anybody, what’s it matter how dopey your dream is? If I hadn’t made TUSK? If I’d let it die as a podcast? I wouldn’t have three other movies I’m now making within the span of a year. Some folks will try to shame you for trying something outside the norm; the only shame is in not trying to accomplish your dreams.
Kevin Smith
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
Bernard de Fontenelle
I always fantasized about having a girl stand on my bar like in that movie Coyote Ugly, but I never thought it would happen.
Faith Sullivan
He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.
Charles Caleb Colton
For acting thus you will remain innocent among the hissings of the serpents, and like a sweet strawberry you will receive no venom from the contact of venomous tongues.
Francis de Sales
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.
Georges Duhamel
The Shield was another of the Fear's names. According to Laughter, it means he shields the seed of Abraham the way a man starting a fire shields the flame. When Sarah was about to die childless, the Fear gave her a son. When Abraham was about to slaughter the son, the Fear gave him the ram. He is always shielding us like a guttering wick, Laughter said, because the fire he is trying to start with us is a fire that the whole world will live to warm its hands at. It is a fire in the dark that will light the whole world home.
Frederick Buechner
All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.""Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat, the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind." There was a long silence."I claim them all," said the Savage at last.
Aldous Huxley
Just remember, we're all in this alone.
Lily Tomlin
Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.
Jean Shepherd
Mozart is the human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
Goethe
Jesus of Nazareth always comes asking disciples to follow him--not merely "accept him," not merely "believe in him," not merely "worship him," but to follow him: one either follows Christ, or one does not. There is no compartmentalization of the faith, no realm, no sphere, no business, no politic in which the lordship of Christ will be excluded. We either make him Lord of all lords, or we deny him as Lord of any.
Lee Camp
I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
Sam Levenson
The crowning blessing of life - to be born with a bias to some pursuit.
S. C. Tallentyre
Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them.
Charles Caleb Colton
May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep. Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but with him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore.
H.P. Lovecraft
I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.
Steven Wright
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.
Alberto Manguel
It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art.
Hermann Bahr
ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term, it admits of no paltering and no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear-cut issues and unambiguous speech.
Chapman Cohen
No one is ever satisfied where he is....Only the children know what they’re looking for....
Antoine De Saint Exupery
You only reveal your game plan when you know you're winning, or losing.
Ahmed Mostafa
I will, however, establish that success in love, as in all other aspects of life, belongs, as a rule, to the persistent and fiber man. Chaucer had reason to make the Old Bath confess: 'The truth is, more or less, we always succumb to attention and perseverance'.
Frank Harris
I don’t actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn’t true it can’t be love.
Aidan Chambers
The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.
Fernando Pessoa
New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?
H.G.Wells
It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I feel obligated to point out, though, that I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetically pleasing. The cosmic sweep of the thing - an interstellar kula chain - affirming the differences and at the same time emphasizing the similarities of all the intelligent races in the galaxy - tying them together, building common traditions... The notion strikes me as kind of fine.
Roger Zelazny
My daughter asked if the boogie man was scary. I said, "Not as scary as the boogie woman.
Randy Kagan
Ideas tyrannize the man who has but few.
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Wise men appreciate all men for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.
Baltasar Gracián
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...
Antoine De Saint Exupery
When I say that I love animals, I mean to say that I am IN love with them. Because they don't know evil and have never been tempted by it. Because they are the purest image of any higher being I have ever known. Because their souls are made of a much larger magic than my own, and if you let them, they will show it to you. Because this world is theirs, they were here first. And we should all love them a little more for graciously allowing us to have so much of it.
Mia Hollow
You're not a piece of nothing, but the all of everything.
Fakeer Ishavardas
In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest.
Fernando Pessoa
Someone else doesn’t have to be wrong for you to be right.
Nitya Prakash
And there above all of these shops hung a blood soaked sign: a red hand, the hand of a child that was neither male nor female and yet roused feelings of the most dejected and criminal love
Georges Limbour
Adapt or perish now as ever is nature's inexorable imperative.
H.G.Wells
Fafhrd stopped, again wiped right hand on robe, and held it out. "Name's Fafhrd. Ef ay ef aitch ar dee."Again the Mouser shook it. "Gray Mouser," he said a touch defiantly, as if challenging anyone to laugh at the sobriquet. "Excuse me, but how exactly do you pronounce that? Faf-hrud?""Just Faf-erd.
Fritz Leiber
Why do people say "grow some balls"? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.
Sheng Wang
I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. I didn't like feeling like that.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinions because we very often differ from ourselves.
Samuel Johnson
How's the blood-stream, my dear, invaluable little woman? How's the blood-stream?"..."It's quite comfortable, sir...I think, sir, thank yo
Mervyn Peake
History is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past
Hilary Mantel
Injuries, therefore, should be inflicted all at once, that their ill savour being less lasting may the less offend; whereas, benefits should be conferred little by little, that so they may be more fully relished.
Niccolò Machiavelli
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A blessing changes the atmosphere. If you say something kind like, ‘How about being my partner at the annual Spring Fling Dance Contest?’, it’s going to affect the situation. If you say something mean, like ‘Harry Moon, you are shorter than my two-year-old brother,’ it’s going to affect circumstance. It’s the simple rule of cause and effect. You bless. You are bringing positivity. You curse. You are making the atmosphere lethal. All humans have the choice to change the atmosphere by what words they say. Think about it.
Mark Andrew Poe
The mind reels.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.
Ben Stein
The necessity of political struggle especially means confronting and contradicting those on the left who say that resistance is futile. Such people have no place in a movement for justice. For actionists who choose to work aboveground, this confrontation with detractors - and some of these detractors reject the idea of resistance of any kind - is one of the small, constant actions you can take. Defend the possibility of resistance, insist on a moral imperative of fighting for this planet, and argue for direct action against perpetrators. Despite what much of the left has now embraced, we are not all equally responsible. There are a few corporations that have turned the planet into a dead commodity for their private wealth, destroying human cultures along with it.
Lierre Keith
He had never smoked but then had he ever loved? Life made him love and love made him smoke.
Faraaz Kazi
You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.
José Saramago