Quotes by Writers - Page 91

Every day my anxiety is higher,every day the grief more mortal.Today more than yesterday terror exalts me…
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Deliver thunder, GodIf you choose not to talk.
Dejan Stojanovic
This water was indeed a different thing from ordinary nourishment. Its sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arms. It was good for the heart, like a present.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.
Libba Bray
A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here.
Steven Wright
But apart from these lazinesses of logic, what makes the story so tired is the failure of the writer to reach for anything but the nearest cliche'. "Shouldered his way," "only to be met," "crashing into his face," "waging a lonely war," "corruption that is rife," "sending shock waves," "New York's finest," - these dreary phrases constitute writing at its most banal. We know just what to expect. No surprise awaits us in the form of an unusual word, an oblique look. We are in the hands of a hack, and we know it right away, We stop reading.
William Zinsser
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead for she is wont to favor the bold.
Baltasar Gracián
A mix of revenge, sadness and anger funnels into a decision that’s so simple and neat, it could fit in my pocket. I will help Kudzu destroy Aevum. Just like Magnus destroyed my mother.
Georgia Clark
Your heart is who you are, all else follows. Guard your heart, Thomas. Guard your heart.
Liam Perrin
We dabble in many things; but the one great real idea of our age, not copied from any other, not pretended, not raised to life by any conjuration, is the Much Making of Things – not the making of beautiful things, not the joy of spending living energy in creative work; rather the shameless, merciless driving and over-driving, wasting and draining of the last bit of energy, only to produce heaps and heaps of things – things ugly, things harmful, things useless, and at the best largely unnecessary.
Voltairine de Cleyre
Putting in place the most ambitious and daring objective isn't enough, it should be backed with an intricate plan and executed like hell, this is what i call the superiority framework, from proximity the dots might seem random and chaotic but from a strategist view these dots are so beautifully interconnected forming greatness in an absolute form
Ahmed Elkadi
I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home.
Rebecca McNutt
The fate of a nation has often depended on the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.
Voltaire
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
John Ruskin
I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.
Libba Bray
Why is it that when you wipe up dust its called dusting but when you wipe up a spill its not called spilling? Just something to think about.
Ellen DeGeneres
If one is forever cautious can one remain a human being?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
Samuel Johnson
The truth for a man, it's what makes him a man.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
(As Plato:) There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision of the best. A creative society must be willing to tolerate some degree of instability because creativity is inherently unstable.
Rebecca Goldstein
...if only the comfortable prosperity of the Victorian age hadn't lulled us into a false conviction of individual security and made us believe that what was going on outside our homes didn't matter to us, the Great War might never have happened.
Vera Brittain
Any youth which is not misspent is, by definition, misspent.
Hermester Barrington
To call up modern versions of the old stories, one has to go forth and live life. As a result then, one will have the challenge of not only living the story, taking it all in, but also interpreting it in whatever ways are useful. So too, one will reap the reward of telling all about it afterward. One's interest in the world, and in having experiences, is really an interest in hearing, having, living one more story, and then one more, then one more story, till one cannot live them out loud any longer. Perhaps it should be said that the drive to live out stories is as deep in the psyche, when awakened, as it is compelling to the psyche to listen to stories and learn from them. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D. in Introduction to the 2004 edition of The hero with a thousand faces (J.Campbell)
Joseph Campbell
Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with the right mixture of abandon and restraint. They should enjoy food, and look upon its preparation and its degustation as one of the human arts.
M.F.K. Fisher
One must be cold if one wishes to savor chaos.
Ferdinand Hardekopf
There are no human gods here, just hoods who think they are.
Fakeer Ishavardas
And so, now, she runs. In her running, her mind leaves her.And she can hear nothing but her heart, the blast making her deaf.There is a great white silent empty in her running.She runs.
Lidia Yuknavitch
Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.
Mark Buchanan
Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.
Mervyn Peake
A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.
M.F.K. Fisher
The very best thing you can be in life is a teacher, provided you are crazy in love with what you teach, and that your classes consist of eighteen students or fewer. Classes of eighteen students or fewer are a family, and feel and act like one.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the painin the world had found a voice
H.G.Wells
If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist — he is without that belief. The distinction between atheism and theism is entirely, exclusively, that of whether one has or has not a belief in God.
Chapman Cohen
She said it was beautiful to be loved, and that it made everything on earth look brighter.
Fanny Fern
Sorry I'm late, I'm afraid I got lost on the path of life-Kakashi Sensei
Masashi Kishimoto
Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.
Samuel Johnson
When all is lost, there is still a memory.
Dejan Stojanovic
We “talk” relationship but we “live” religion, with unsatisfying results. Christianity defines itself, first and foremost, as a relationship with God. Even though this is true, our human nature tends toward living a relationship with God as if it were a religion
Mark Cowper-Smith
Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.
Georges Bataille
If your religion requires, as an article of faith, to hate people of other religions and faiths, you and your ism are screwed up, mate.
Fakeer Ishavardas
(When told that he is a drunk) My dear, you are ugly; but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Sir Winston Churchill
Is my victory real, does the winner adorned with a laurel wreath ask this question? Do I deserve victory or did I steal it from someone who is more worthy of victory?
Dejan Stojanovic
An eternity is any moment opened with patience.
Noah Benshea
According to the reality, I assume that we are not going to meet again. Yet, I do believe that we have met for a reason
Ahmed Alibage
Like language, books serve to express us, but also to complete us, furnishing, through a variety of excerpted and reworked fragments, the missing elements of our personality.
Pierre Bayard
I dreaded an invasion of ghosts or, less likely, an invasion of the police.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
On the levels of politics and theology, beauty is perfectly compatible with nonsense and tyranny. Which is very fortunate; for if beauty were incompatible with non­sense and tyranny, there would be precious little art in the world. The masterpieces of painting, sculpture and architecture were produced as religious or political propaganda, for the greater glory of a god, a govern­ment or a priesthood. But most kings and priests have been despotic and all religions have been riddled with superstition. Genius has been the servant of tyranny and art has advertised the merits of the local cult. Time, as it passes, separates the good art from the bad meta­physics. Can we learn to make this separation, not after the event, but while it is actually taking place? That is the question.
Aldous Huxley
It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. Whenyou pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you paytoo little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing youbought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. Thecommon law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting alot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is wellto add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you willhave enough to pay for something better.
John Ruskin
If I had a choice, I wouldn’t be here… I wouldn’t be anywhere.
Faraaz Kazi
Fear hadn’t come to him yet. Pain hadn’t come where pain would come. There was only the feeling of having done something perfect at last—the taste of a drink from a cold, pure spring.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.
Frederick Buechner
… for overstrong was the command to hold fast to each smallest particle of time, to the smallest particle of every circumstance, and to embody all of them in memory as if they could be preserved in memory through all deaths for all times.
Hermann Broch
Never be hurried in anything. Do all things calmly and in a spirit of repose. Do not lose your inward peace even if everything seems to be going wrong. What is anything in life compared to peace of soul?
Francis de Sales
We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.
La Rochefoucauld
O how vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
Samuel Johnson
Your body may not be, but the quintessence your being and entity is made-up of, is forever.
Fakeer Ishavardas
There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two.
Red Skelton
Writers more interested in literature than the truth ensure that they never come out with either thing — one reason that the word literature today sounds so fake, as if you were to insist on saying cuisine every time you meant food. Food, as in sustenance, is more like what we have in mind.
The editors n+1
Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Samuel Johnson
One, who suicides, is itself a killer and itself a victim. To trigger that has its decision, and own willingness, no one else.
Ehsan Sehgal