Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.
Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground.
For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.
The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.
The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance.
Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.
I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.
If the poor rabbits knew I was selling their dead bodies for wine, they would be heartbroken.
Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.
The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.
She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.
My Dad says that we're the meanest to the ones we love because we know they'll still love us.
Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.
Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.
So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.
Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.
Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be? A: You already are an animal.
If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.
When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires.
I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.
Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.
I did not sleep. I never do when I am over-happy, over-unhappy, or in bed with a strange man.
Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.
The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.
There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.
Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.
Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition.
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
You’re evil, you know that?” I said. She grinned and shook her head. “Chaotic Neutral, sugar.
When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.
Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.
If Australia is The Lucky Country, the Aborigines must be the unluckiest people in the world.
Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.
I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.
If he's alive, everything is in his power! Whose fault is it that he doesn't understand that?
Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.
He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.
To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it.
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.
We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.
Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.