Quotes by Writers - Page 35

Thought and science are therefore raising problems which their terms of study can never answer, many of which are doubtless problems only for thought. The trisection of an angle is similarly an insoluble problem only for compass and straight-edge construction, and Achilles cannot overtake the tortoise so long as their progress is considered piecemeal, endlessly having the distance between them. However, as it is not Achilles but the method of measurement which fails to catch up with the tortoise, so it is not man but his method of thought which fails to find fulfillment in experience.

Alan W. Watts

Love doesn't go away just because you realize you can't be with someone

Lexi Ryan

It was more important for me to try, than to not have the chance at all.

Rebecca Donovan

A bit of adviceGiven to a young Native AmericanAt the time of his initiation:As you go the way of life,You will see a great chasm. Jump.It is not as wide as you think.

Joseph Campbell

If we didn't have shadow we'd just sit around loving the light, likely doing nothing with it.

S. Kelley Harrell

Old age is that night of life as night is the old age of day. Still night is full of magnificence and for many it is more brilliant than the day.

Anne-Sophie Swetchine

The only thing to know is how to use your neuroses.

Arthur Adamov

What does the corpse care who was right and who was wrong?

Manuel Azaña

The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more they reward virtue.

Oliver Goldsmith

I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

A fondness for roving, for making a name for themselves in their onw country, and for boasting of what they had seen in their travels, was so strong in our two wanderers, that they resolved to be no longer happy; and demanded permission of the king to leave the country.

Voltaire

There is always a choice. Always. So do not say, you had no choice. Good or bad, doing it or not, is about you, not choices. Always.

Fakeer Ishavardas

What’s it gonna be like, dying? To go to sleep and never, never, never wake up.Well, a lot of things it’s not gonna be like. It’s not going to be like being buried alive. It’s not going to be like being in the darkness forever.I tell you what — it’s going to be as if you never had existed at all. Not only you, but everything else as well. That just there was never anything, there’s no one to regret it — and there’s no problem. Well, think about that for a while — it’s kind of a weird feeling when you really think about it, when you really imagine.[The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are ]

Alan W. Watts

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain the most miserable he who enjoys the least pleasure.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Alan W. Watts

With the suggestion of a compromise Gawaine mustered up enough courage to speak."What will you do if I surrender?" he asked."Why, I'll eat you," said the dragon."And if I don't surrender?""I'll eat you just the same.

Heywood Broun

But I, when I undress meEach night, upon my kneesWill ask the Lord to bless meWith apple-pie and cheese.

Eugene Field

Happiness consists not in having much but in being content with little.

Lady Marguerite Blessington

The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.

Wyndham Lewis

For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person. (on Margaret Thatcher)

Frankie Boyle

Ad we interviewing each other?Something like that.What position am I applying for?Best friend.I thought I already had the job.Don't be so sure, you arrogant son of a bitch.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

I hear from afar the shouts of that false wisdom which is ever dragging us onwards, counting the present as nothing, and pursuing without pause a future which flies as we pursue, that false wisdom which removes us from our place and never brings us to any other.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quoting Father Seraphim:Our life hangs only by a breath. It is the thread that links you to the Father, the Source, which brought you into being. Be conscious of this thread, and go where you will. (27)

Jean-Yves Leloup

In the Balkans the peasants say that if you long for faraway countries and leave your own land and home to find them, you are born under A LILAC-BLEEDING STAR.

Lesley Blanch

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

Aldous Huxley

I guess I'm just feeling Septemberish," sighed Chester. "It's getting towards autumn now. And it's so pretty up in Connecticut. All the trees change color. The days get very clear―with a little smoke on the horizon from burning leaves. Pumpkins begin to come out.

George Selden

I don't switch much, don't really want many people to fuck me, because there's a whole code, unwritten but no less rigid than if it were chiseled in stone, about how Tops Must be, how Butches Must Be, and it does not include taking off one's pants. It does not include admitting to one's own desires, only quietly serving the desires of others. It certainly does not include taking a break once in a while to inhabit some other gender, role, or sensibility, even for half a delightful, sweaty hour, in the company of someone who feels like a mirror of me rather than a complementary piece I can fit myself against.

S. Bear Bergman

I had no idea how free we were. That's how free I was.

Brendan Cowell

The only things you learn are the things you tame

Antoine De Saint Exupery

He who causes another to become powerful ruins himself, for he brings such a power into being either by design or by force, and both of these elements are suspects to the one whom he has made powerful.

Niccolò Machiavelli

Freedom is not an individual effort.Yours comes only when you grant others theirs

Sergio Aragonés

At evening when the lamp is lit,The tired Human People sitAnd doze, or turn with solemn looksThe speckled pages of their books.Then I, the Dangerous Kitten, prowlAnd in the Shadows softly growl,And roam about the farthest floorWhere Kitten never trod before.And, crouching in the jungle damp,I watch the Human Hunter’s camp,Ready to spring with fearful roarAs soon as I shall hear them snore.And then with stealthy tread I crawlInto the dark and trackless hall,Where 'neath the Hat-tree's shadows deepUmbrellas fold their wings and sleep.A cuckoo calls — and to their densThe People climb like frightened hens,And I'm alone — and no one caresIn Darkest Africa — downstairs.

Oliver Herford

Kolya threw his shoes under the bed and went to the window. There was a full moon, light green and ugly, in the sky. It seemed to be hiding behind the treetops, spying. Its light was soft and lifeless, and its rays were tremulous and mesmerizing, as they penetrated through the branches...

Fyodor Sologub

To be likeable as a woman, it seems, you have to ensure that you’re also non-threatening and slightly useless.

Hannah Brooks Olsen

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached but great men resemble them not in this particular.

Lady Marguerite Blessington

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

La Rochefoucauld

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

Samuel Johnson

Of course I love you. It is my fault that you have not known it all the while" (the flower to little prince)

Antoine De Saint Exupery

Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.

Evgeny Morozov

So, your god is the only god? Okay, but then, so is my dog.

Fakeer Ishavardas

Wherever I go, I meet myself.

Dejan Stojanovic

Spirituality is a magnet, and the magnet affects iron, not the wood or stone. Similarly, faith and devotion are iron, who has that, spirituality touches the believer, not an unbeliever.

Ehsan Sehgal

Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten.

Oliver Hassencamp

The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine

George Sand

In this world one is seldom reduced to make a selection between two alternatives. There are as many varieties of conduct and opinion as there are turns of feature between an aquiline nose and a flat one.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.

Charles Caleb Colton

The sexier the other woman is, the more jealous your wife gets. And that's where slut shaming comes from. When a woman is too sexually attractive, when she's too good at attracting the attention of the opposite sex, other women will shame her for it, because they are afraid she will steal their men.

Oliver Markus

For the things in the chair, perfect to the last, subtle detail of microscopic resemblance - or identity - were the face and hands of Henry Wentworth Akeley.

H.P. Lovecraft

You shattered the remainder of my heart, yet you expect me to be okay with it day after day.

Ahmed Mostafa

Defeat is a thing of weariness of incoherence of boredom.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed that when it is needful to be otherwise you may be able to change to the opposite qualities. And it must be understood that a prince, and especially a new prince, cannot observe all those things which are considered good in men, being often obliged, in order to maintain the state, to act against faith, against charity, against humanity, and against religion. And, therefore, he must have a mind disposed to adapt itself according to the wind, and as the variations of fortune dictate, and, as I said before, not deviate from what is good, if possible, but be able to do evil if constrained.

Niccolò Machiavelli

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

La Rochefoucauld

May your love never become an obsession.

Ahmed Mostafa

If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.

Shah Asad Rizvi

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

Clay Shirky

Truly it is a blessed thing to love on earth as we hope to love in Heaven, and to begin that friendship here which is to endure for ever there.

Francis de Sales

It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.

Dejan Stojanovic

There is neither a Heaven nor a Hell. Life after Death is an oxymoron. Life is just another word for existence, and Death is just another word for non-existence.

Oliver Markus Malloy

To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool.

Dejan Stojanovic

I think life is a lot different for alternative kids nowadays. Texting and the internet mean that being a Goth or something means you're part of a big social scene, it's an inclusive thing. Back then, we all just went our different ways in the afterglow,wishing each other all the best with the next ten years of bullying.

Frankie Boyle

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