Quotes by Writers - Page 9

And death shall have no dominion.Under the windings of the seaThey lying long shall not die windily;Twisting on racks when sinews give way,Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;Faith in their hands shall snap in two,And the unicorn evils run them through;Split all ends up they shan't crack;And death shall have no dominion.

Dylan Thomas

Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?

Libba Bray

By shooting the darkest areas three zones lighter, you turned a black, lifeless max black zone 0 into a zone 3. I think, in life, most of us did this all the time.

A.S. King

I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.

Ellen DeGeneres

Everything seems impossible And everything seems possible.

Dejan Stojanovic

One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

Joseph Campbell

I only care for the subjective life; I am very German, you see: The woods interest me, and the world does not.

Ouida

Simply put, That Which Is - what most of us call God - is not a physical person nor a this or that spirit etc. Is the Quintessence of All That Is.

Fakeer Ishavardas

The crowning blessing of life - to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

S. C. Tallentyre

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

Samuel Johnson

Well, I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. It seems that they are very beautiful.And if not the butterflies– and the caterpillars– who will call upon me? You will be far away. . . as for the large animals– I am not at all afraid of any of them. I have my claws.”And, navely, she showed her four thorns. Then she added:“Don’t linger like this. You have decided to go away. Now go!”For she did not want him to see her crying. She was such a proud flower. . .

Antoine De Saint Exupery

The building is rather like a medieval Castle and was established in the Sixth Century and soon afterwards, as the Moslem armies advanced Westwards from the Arabian Peninsula, somebody had the prescience to build a small Mosque in its courtyard to guard against it being burned or demolished. At the time of the Crusades it was the turn of the Monastery to protect the Mosque, and so it has been down the ages, each House of God extending its shelter to the other as opposing armies came and went.

Ahdaf Soueif

Sleep is the boundary between being/existence and not-being/non-existence.

Wasif Ali Wasif

A woman is like your shadow follow her she flies fly from her she follows.

Sebastien Chamfort

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.

Dejan Stojanovic

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.

Samuel Johnson

They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, 'Was it books in the trunk?''It was books, admitted Miss Minton.And Maia said, 'Good.

Eva Ibbotson

It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

Ahmir Questlove Thompson

Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests.

François de La Rochefoucauld

I think I am going to have to supercharge my optimism to arm myself for the battle ahead. Trust me, it is going to be a battle.

Rebecca Bloom

Or that other bullshit, 'I need more space.' People never quantify exactly how much space they need, but strangely enough it always seems to be the exact same height, depth, and breadth as you.

Dylan Moran

Long before they had ever met, I think this destiny awaited them. They were not like ships passing in the night. It wasn't like they didn't understand each other. They understood each other better than anyone else, and each was focused solely on the other.

Gen Urobuchi

Behind everyday reality, there is a deeper reality so cruel that it condemns to death those who crime is no greater than the pursuit of their own curiosity.("Shem-El-Nessim: An Inspiration In Perfume")

Chris Bell

Deliver thunder, GodIf you choose not to talk.

Dejan Stojanovic

In a cruel and imperfect world, she was living proof that God could still create perfection.

Rex Reed

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Alan W. Watts

It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings it is the soft luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.

Ouida

For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, the demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere."Blessed are the merciful" in a courtroom? "Blessed are the peacemakers" in the Pentagon? Give me a break!

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Music does not need language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation.

Shah Asad Rizvi

Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters we construct gigantic frail glass buildings all over Manhattan at Ground Zero, a thousand feet high, open to the sky, life a woman undressing before an intruder and provoking him to rape her. We ring Russia's borders with missile-launching pads, and then scream that she's threatening us. In all history there's never been a more lurid mass example of the sadist-masochist expression of the thanatos instinct than the present conduct of the United States. The Nazis by comparison were Eagle Scouts.

Herman Wouk

the centre is missing, but we cannot stop searching for it or positing it. It is not that there is nothing there - it is that what is there is not capable of exercising responsibility

Mark Fisher

I tossed a stone into the Sea To see what it would do for me And the ripples went out And became ocean waves To return to the Sea inside of me

Mark A.Y. Nunez

Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.

Voltaire

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking-glass.

François Rabelais

I never said I was sad, I’m just pessimistic,” said Alecto. “Expect the worst, that way you’ll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems.

Rebecca McNutt

When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)

Joseph Campbell

Can you imagine life without the horror genre? There would be no monsters. Only a**holes.

Michael A. Arnzen

Golden eagles don`t mate with bald eagles, deer don`t mate with antelope, gray wolves don`t mate with red wolves. Just look at domesticated animals, at mongrel dogs, and mixed breed horses, and you`ll know the Great Mystery didn`t intend them to be that way. We weakened the species and introduced disease by mixing what should be kept seperate. Among humans, intermarriage weakens the respect people have for themselves and for their traditions. It undermines clarity of spirit and mind.

Russell Means

Everyone speaks of it few know it.

Mme. Jeanne P. Roland

What's the point in being here if you have to follow a computer? What is this, a fucking Turing test in reverse?

Ahmir Questlove Thompson

It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour.A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. That’s all I can say.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

You said you want to became Hokage. I have become the Kazekage. If you are willing to bear the name Kage, you have to do what you must do.

Masashi Kishimoto

If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger we will become the tool of our tools. We think of ourselves as Google's customers, but really we're its products.

Rebecca Goldstein

Time spent in prayer is never wasted.

Francois de Fenelon

Many of the slaves believe such stories, and think it is not worth while to exchange slavery for such a hard kind of freedom. It is difficult to persuade such that freedom could make them useful men, and enable them to protect their wives and children. If those heathen in our Christian land had as much teaching as some Hindoos, they would think otherwise. They would know that liberty is more valuable than life. They would begin to understand their own capabilities, and exert themselves to become men and women.

Harriet Jacobs

Be kind to one another. Bye, bye.

Ellen DeGeneres

Do not go gentle into that good night Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

I am fascinated by the dailies, what is daily.

Juan Ramón Jiménez

Hermits have no peer pressure.

Steven Wright

If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.

Samuel Johnson

I liked the idea of a person shedding their life, and someone else putting it on. -Oliver Harris on writing The Hollow Man for Crime Time online magazine

Oliver Harris

His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye.

Wasif Ali Wasif

The way I tell it, he says to Fitzwilliam, you would think that the blow on the head had improved him. That he actually set out to get it. That every monarch needs a blow on the head, from time to time.

Hilary Mantel

The most out-there thing I’m saying is, ‘Don’t have babies. Don’t get married and have kids. Have a larger life than that.

Roseanne Barr

Grandma Hutto’s flower garden was a bright patchwork quilt thrown down inside the pickets.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

We were bred of earth before we were bred of our mothers. Once born, we can live without mother or father, or any other kin, or any friend, or any human love. We cannot live without the earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I'm afraid that if we move on to such topics, I won't be able to let you go safe and sound.

Olga Goa

Problems don't exist because people are religious people are religious because problems exist.

Ahmad Ammar

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

Vauvenargues

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