Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A love astounds us or a pain consumes us and we forget that we glow on our own.
Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way.
Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no.
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth
Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
What I have done is learn to love and learn to be loved. That didn't come easy.
To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.
I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us.
Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old - / These fields and mountains!
How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!
Reality is a formless lure, And only when we know this Do we dare to be unreal.
In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.
What we are is our parents' children; what we become is our children's parents.
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.
Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]
What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
Dads don't need to be tall and broad-shouldered and clever. Love makes them so.
The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect.
Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
Revenge and wrong bring forth their kind; The foul cubs like their parents are.
Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe.
Jesus would never use government surrogates to force the people to help others.
Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts.
Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock.
Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.
Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.
Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.
Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.
Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.
Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.
There is no sorrow like a love denied. Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Don't write love poems when you're in love. Write them when you're not in love.
The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.
I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.
Comes the time when it's later and onto your table the headwaiter puts the bill