Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.
It's not an easy choice, but that's OK. Easy doesn't equal good. Difficulty doesn't equal bad. It's just life, is all.
As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.
You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.
The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible
Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?
Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?' - The Magician's Nephew
Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.
'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.
Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.
And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad.
Almost overnight, Albert Pinkham had gone from being barely able to keep his head above water to walking on the stuff.
But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?
My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled.
I suppose people might consider me a 'loose' reader, as I seem willing to read anything of quality thinking and prose.
Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.
I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane?
Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.
In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.
But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.
The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.
If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.
Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.
This wasn't any mere song and dance; here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death.
When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.
It's still unacceptable for women to have negative emotions, especially anger, and I was trying to write against that.
She was lonely without Blunt, but she was lonelier at the idea that the world went on as though she had not loved him.
I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.
Zombies are a great rhetorical prop to talk about people and paranoia, and they are a good vehicle for my misanthropy.
Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
Life might be easier if you give in a little, but it's better if you hold onto something so hard you can't give it up.
I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.
It's good for you to see your friends arrested. It hardens you. There's no place in our New Order for sentimentalists.
Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.
Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still
Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.
Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.
So slowly the hot elephant hearts grow full of desire, and the great beasts mate in secret at last, hiding their fire.
Simply being with other people who are also seekers and who are involved in the same quest you are is very meaningful.
Somebody once said to me that photography and writing don't get respect because people think that they can do it, too.