Post your best quotes here. (only text please, no images)
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot. – Alexander Pope
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot. – Alexander Pope
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak? - Jean Genet
Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows. - Michael Landon
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
-Marcel Proust
“People are like stained – glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw
Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within. - Sandra Cisneros
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. - Steve Jobs
We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin. – André Berthiaume
“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. - Jean Genet
“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.” – Anne Frank
When autumn darkness falls, what we will remember are the small acts of kindness: a cake, a hug, an invitation to talk, and every single rose. These are all expressions of a nation coming together and caring about its people. - Jens Stoltenberg
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication - Abraham Maslow
"Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift." — Mary Oliver
This dark brightness that falls from the stars. - Pierre Corneille
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.-Unknown
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident. - Eckhart Tolle
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
-H. P. Lovecraft
“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. - Denis Diderot
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
-William Wallace
“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers