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Only surprise delayed Regis’s immediate squeals of joy when Bruenor opened his gray eyes and winke...
R.A. SALVATORE What is necessary is what is needed.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got...
WILLIAM FAULKNER At forty-two, I had never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that was par...
SUE MONK KIDD I’d say that the quantity of boredom, if boredom is measurable, is much greater today than it once...
MILAN KUNDERA Remembering our past, carrying it around with us always, may be the necessary requirement for mainta...
MILAN KUNDERA If hatred strikes you, if you get accused, thrown to the lions, you can expect one of two reactions ...
MILAN KUNDERA Caddy smelled like trees.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Did you ever have a sister? did you?
WILLIAM FAULKNER when we reach the point when our lives take on their final shape as in a novel we can identify our h...
ORHAN PAMUK Is this not the collector's exquisite pleasure, that his desire should know no bounds, should reach ...
GEORGES RODENBACH Dianzi, ne l’alba che procede al giorno,
quando l’anima tua dentro dormia
DANTE ALIGHIERI The jurors appear vaguely stranded and at loose ends, uprooted from their routines and livelihoods.
WALTER KIRN There were times, however, when a man had to make a strategic retreat to win the game.
LAURA LEE GUHRKE I’m not sorry," said Quentin. "One of them tried to take my throat away from me. With its teeth. I...
SEANAN MCGUIRE You cannot beat time
by running through its carriages.
HEMAT MALAK You read any Greek myths, puppy? The one about the gorgon Medusa, particularly? I used to wonder wha...
MIKE CAREY A low thrum in his gut. Love. What is the measure of such a thing? Love, or the word love, is like a...
LAWRENCE KRAUSER Peace lies actually in accepting the truth, not fighting it
ALKA DIMRI SAKLANI, BEYOND SECRETS Denial and affirmation are games which people play.
There are people who deny that they are cap...
IDRIES SHAH The most disgusting in the world is being unaware of who we are
SUNDAY ADELAJA You stayed strong in those moments of your life. You were alone. You battled loneliness. And you som...
AVIJEET DAS He pulled me close and said, "Katie, don't leave me, you're my breath, I refuse to live without you....
J.A. ANUM Did you wake up feeling fragile? Read the bible till you find a promise strong enough to carry you t...
JOHN PIPER I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shoo...
ROMA DOWNEY See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum... and one night, one night they decide they don'...
ALAN MOORE Help the world to become better. Don't leave the world just the same as you have found it - make it ...
OSHO إِيْ ، عجيبة هي أرضك ياربّي
وعجيب كلّ مافيها وما علي...
MIKHAIL NAIMY Love is a game
of tic-tac-toe,
constantly waiting
for the next x or o.
LANG LEAV You must understand: they fear you. There is nothing scarier in their minds than a girl who knows th...
NIKITA GILL Us? There is no us. You threw us away like yesterday’s trash.
SARAH GRIMM Adieu, dear heart, nothing but death can make me cease to love you.
MARIE ANTOINETTE Hope as evidence of life. Life as evidence of death.
LARA BIYUTS (visions) of strange cities, of sandy plains, of gigantic ruins, of midnight skies with strange brig...
GEORGE ELIOT I am like a dead begonia hanging upside down because like a dead begonia I don't give a f**k.
DAVID LEVITHAN Maybe it's better to have gotten it right and been happy for one day instead of living a lifetime of...
ADAM SILVERA Magically, hopelessness gives rise to profound hope.
STEFAN EMUNDS The most critical time in any battle is not when I’m fatigued, it’s when I no longer care.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH There was always so much going on. Never any time to stop and smell the roses. Never any roses to st...
ELLIE LIEBERMAN Cuando cierro los ojos y miro mis sueños, sonrío sin
querer.
AINHOA REBOLLEDO Woyzeck
- Burada olduğumuz için şanslıyız değil mi Andreas?
Andreas
- Bu yer la...
GEORG BüCHNER I have no idea what to do, and everything is starting to feel dangerously hopeless. Hopelessness is ...
CAROLYN LEE ADAMS اليأس ليس حالة عامة، بل هنالك يأسٌ خاص بحالات ما، ولا ي�...
جلجامش نبيل, GILGAMESH NABEEL In her recent New York Times op-ed, “And the Winner Isn’t . . . ,” which addresses the failure...
NAOMI BENARON There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the m...
KATE CHOPIN SSDD Same Shit Different Day
STEPHEN KING The body is either stupid or infinitely wise, but in either case it is spared the terrible witchery ...
STEPHEN KING When I get to heaven one day, I'm going to ask God how it's possible that time moves so much quicker...
JENNY B. JONES I'm about to as you a favor."
And I'm about to tell you no.
JENNY B. JONES Did you think I'd only want you once? Oh, my, you are more naïve than I thought. Why would I go thr...
NENIA CAMPBELL Have you ever been in love with someone so badly that you’d do anything for them? That no matter w...
ALMA KATSU No more money, no more fancy dress
This other Kingdom seems by far the best until its other jaw...
JIM MORRISON They want to be the agents, not the victims, of history. They identify with God's power and believe ...
PHILIP K. DICK We're blind moles. Creeping through the soil, feeling with our snoots. We know nothing. I perceived ...
PHILIP K. DICK Maybe my dissertation really had been as brilliant as he claimed, the truth was I remember almost no...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ I had people saying 'it's all in your head'. Do you honestly think I want to feel this way?
SONIA ESTRADA Being suicidal is really tiring. A lot of suicides are so lacking in affect and so lethargic that th...
CHARLES D'AMBROSIO No. Not a death wish. Just very little left to lose.
STACEY KADE Aunt Libby: "I think I'm getting married! I've been dying to tell you."
Raven: "You are? Congra...
ELLEN SCHREIBER Death is inevitable passion is eternal
ALLISON VAN DIEPEN Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
EDGAR ALLAN POE And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor
EDGAR ALLAN POE Long suffering had nearly annihilated all my ordinary powers of mind. I was an imbecile—an idiot.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção.
EDGAR ALLAN POE أتعلمين ..أي حزن ٍ يبعث المطر..
وكيف يشعر الوحيد فيه ب...
بدر شاكر السياب Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survi...
ALBERT ELLIS To be creative you actually have to do something.
KEN ROBINSON They hit a couple big shots at the end, especially the big three at the end. That was a big differen...
JOHN JAMES Unfortunately for my report, mom caught me and I didn't get to see how it ended.
CALVIN & HOBBES The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA The love we extend to one another at Christmas, should blossom all year.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Healthy shame keeps us grounded. It is a yellow light, warning us of our essential limitations. Heal...
JOHN BRADSHAW There are stories that are true, in which each individual's tale is unique and tragic, and the worst...
NEIL GAIMAN Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.
PYOTR KROPOTKIN The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you t...
KARL MARX If love is under siege, it is because it threatens the very essence of commercial civilization. Ever...
RAOUL VANEIGEM Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?
OBI WAN KENOBI I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head...
LAURIE R. KING Seven hundred and fifty billion dollars is the annual aggregate income of African Americans. That ec...
KENNETH KAUNDA Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
VAUVENARGUES, MARQUIS DE Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about i...
JOHN STEINBECK The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Faith is the force of life.
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY It must be because you're so approachable,' I say flatly. 'You know. Like a bed of nails.'
He s...
VERONICA ROTH If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry
WILLA CATHER I don't remember anyone making such an impact on a tournament since Pele in the 1958 World Cup in Sw...
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON It's a great partnership. Michael Owen will score goals for them and it's great that he can play tog...
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON When it rains, even the most insignificant puddle is a map of the universe.
SIMON VAN BOOY If a holy man eats half his loaf, he will give the other half to a beggar. But if a king conquers al...
ABRAHAM ERALY Yes, he had to admit to himself, he liked dating bookish girls who didn’t give him any trouble. An...
SHARON HAMILTON You get this drama, babe, you got until the end of Tack’s meeting to burn it out, but mark this, L...
KRISTEN ASHLEY He did not engage in the conversation.
THOMAS MIDDLETON If you brave enough to live it, the least I can do is listen.
CYNTHIA BOND Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man?
DENNIS LEHANE His great trick was making the game simple, supplying players with the confidence and self-belief of...
JOHN MCGOVERN Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
HENRY JAMES Sometimes you’re sad, you listen to sad music, you relate to the lyrics, you sulk, and that is alr...
DANDELIONLADY96 The Word is Live ,
RHINO RECORDS The problem is that we don't have enough of what are called strike team leaders. These are highly tr...
MARY APPLE O esplendor da manhã não se abre com faca.
MANOEL DE BARROS Corruption begins with a single moment of weakness.
ERIKA JOHANSEN Why do I even dare to think I could dream I could imagine I could hope?
DYLAN MORAN here I am simply trying to get into your head
you think you were born you die what a pity
IKKYU I tried more than once to tell you, to communicate what I know. You did not or could not listen. You...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS A free people, forgetting that it has a soul to be cared for, devotes all its energies to its materi...
ALBERT PIKE Just because I'd kicked junk, after all, did not mean I'd kicked being a junkie. And junkies lie. It...
JERRY STAHL Oh, the torment bred in the race,
the grinding scream of death
and the stroke that hits t...
AESCHYLUS I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immed...
SYLVIA PLATH बच्चों के लिए बाप एक फालतू-सी चीज - एक व�...
MUNSHI PREMCHAND Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC I look at you looking at me, now I know why the best things are free, how you've changed my world yo...
DR. SEUSS No gains without pains.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The bomb lives only as it is falling.
IAIN M. BANKS The attack on Iraq has been long planned. There just hasn't been an excuse for it. Since George H.W....
JOHN PILGER Why is Melancholy like Honey? Because it is very sweet, and it is culled from Flowers.
HOPE MIRRLEES No one explains this to you, he thought. That there are so many things without solution.
JESSE BALL Nothing is forever, he thought beyond closed eyelids somewhere over Asia Minor. Maybe unhappiness is...
SALMAN RUSHDIE The cloudless day is richer at its close;
A golden glory settles on the lea;
Soft, stealin...
H.P. LOVECRAFT Sweet pulp and sour skin -
Or was it sweet outside, and sour within?
TONY HARRISON Had it been possible for me to fix the plane permanently in the sky, to defy the winds and clouds an...
JERZY KOSIńSKI They are embossed on every song that was a hit that summer, in every novel I read during and after h...
ANDRé ACIMAN dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life?
STEPHEN LABERGE Pinochet shared one of the main aims of his ideological soulmates in Britain: to erase the working c...
OWEN JONES A mist is rolling over the fields. Why is a summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?
DODIE SMITH The fakirs always throng the sea-shore
To find meaning in the chaos
And then they too beco...
AVIJEET DAS I stood there silently, under the cold embrace of that rain,
and watched myself drown,
as ...
SYED MURTAZA HAROON In Hong Kong, I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera”, in which the hero...
GRAEME SIMSION When I feel ill, cinema pictures of the circumstances of my death flit across my mind's eye. I canno...
W.N.P. BARBELLION It's a singular sort of pain, watching the most beautiful creature self-destruct because you weren't...
JOYCE RACHELLE Months after my wrists ripping, a talk therapist referred to the act as self-hatred. Until then nobo...
BRIAN SPELLMAN Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the com...
W.N.P. BARBELLION I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and th...
TIM WINTON I have never been a violent man. Just a little creepy, it seems.
TIM WINTON Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Si...
OSCAR WILDE It was always once springtime in my heart.
OSCAR WILDE العقل هو المستفيد الكبير من هزائم الجسد. يثري على حسابه...
إميل سيوران ثمة راهب وجزار يتشاجران داخل كل رغبة.
EMIL M. CIORAN Dividing one number by another is mere computation ; knowing what to divide by what is mathematics.
JORDAN ELLENBERG I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the top of the beer can.
SYLVIA PLATH You poets are accustomed to finding words for everything beautiful and you don’t even grant that p...
HERMANN HESSE So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being...
DANIEL KEYES Time wasn't passing so much as kneeling beside him in a torn tee-shirt disclosing the rodent-nosed t...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE So just take a look at the different prosecution rates and sentencing rules for ghetto drugs like cr...
NOAM CHOMSKY And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there's always ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY He was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone...
NELSON ALGREN It was ridiculous really. I had just won a major race despite not being in top form, yet I was going...
DAVID MILLAR Boney the snowman, was a crazy, whacked-out guy, with tattooed skin and a goofy grin, and he liked t...
MICHAEL THOMAS FORD I've always thought that love was being foolish and stupid. It's about being on the edge and I like ...
LOUIS NOWRA Ustedes piensan primero en obtener la producción más grande posible en el menor tiempo posible. No...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Los intelectuales de Occidente son todos aficionados a la silla. Por eso la mayoría de ustedes son ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY After working 58 years for the public, it is time to say goodbye and retire,
KENNETH HOWELL P.S. Hey what has 48 legs and 12 teeth? The front row in Alabama…
NIKKI SIXX Anything worth doing, is worth overdoing.
NIKKI SIXX There's nothin like a trail of ßlooÐ to finÐ your way ßack home
NIKKI SIXX What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it -- as if the cau...
BILL MOYERS We got stops and we took the ball to the basket and we shared the ball.
JASON KIDD We probably will be looking at tape of our defense, ... When we play defense, we can compete with an...
JASON KIDD We have so much time, and so little to do. Wait! Stop! Reverse that.
WILLY WONKA If I show up on your doorstep don't worry I'm just there to party.
KENNY D. EICHENBERG For helping me to grow I owe a lot I know
To all the girls I've loved before.
WILLIE NELSON And yes, the Hemingways, the Fitzgeralds, the Faulkners and the Capotes. Drank while writing. Drink ...
JEANNE DARST When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
C.S. FORESTER Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as te...
CAROLINE KNAPP We pick up our shots and for the first time there's a total absence of sound in the room. From the c...
LAURIE PEREZ Is this the end of all the endings?
My broken bones are mending
With all these nights we'r...
TAYLOR SWIFT And for close-range projectors and domestic use, brightness is not so much of a problem.
JAMES STEWART He laid into me with the same gusto as a right-wing political pundit on the O'Reilly Factor defendin...
CHELSEA HANDLER Sometimes, Chelsea, I wonder, how you get by from day to day. It's a good thing you're so voluptuous...
CHELSEA HANDLER Strange star-like object over Oslo right before Obama arrives. A gift of a golden medal given by a g...
CRAIG FERGUSON Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the ...
JAMES BROWN every black baby in this country.
WILLIAM BENNETT Everyone loves him except the equipment manager that has to wash his uniform because he dives all ov...
JACKIE MOORE It looks like every time you look up, there's another player from Round Rock in the big leagues, ......
JACKIE MOORE Essentially, he has been retired since he was 21.
JACK NICKLAUS The Sound of Music.
JACK NICHOLSON I've had a few people tell me as soon as Buffett retires they're coming on my tour,
JACK JOHNSON I am consciously surrendering conciousness.
SARAH DUNN I think it'd be awesome. I think learning behind Brett Favre -- I'd try to make him stay as long as ...
J.P. LOSMAN I think Allan is looking forward to playing. He believes one day he'll get back to his original form...
ISIAH THOMAS A pretty girl is like a melody / That haunts you day and night.
IRVING BERLIN I thought Darren had suffered a bad knee injury but I am led to believe that he is back in training ...
WALTER SMITH I'm psychologically equipped for this.
A. ASHLEY STRAKER Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask...
JAY NORTHCOTE The purpose of clothing, as best he could tell, was to keep one unembarrassed and at the right tempe...
TOM RACHMAN Everyone’s their own nation, with their own blog. Because everybody has something important to say...
TOM RACHMAN Did you ever wonder why Spot runs so much? He’s running away from Dick and Jane and Sally, the dul...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A woman drove me to drink. I don't drink and drive.
BRIAN SPELLMAN Natürlich mochte ich die, die nicht ich waren, nur selten.
SIBYLLE BERG And the worst thing about it was that you began to feel as if you had always lived on that ship, in ...
C.S. LEWIS Drunks fear the police
but the police are drunk too.
RUMI raises serious concerns about the ability of this administration to protect the safety of our nation...
HOWARD DEAN I believe they do not care what Americans think and they do not accept the legitimacy of our electio...
HOWARD DEAN I can't even tell you what's going on. I learned about this last night,
HOWARD STERN I made them millions of dollars. If I was hurting them why did they keep me on the air for 14 months...
HOWARD STERN You haven't come with me yet? How dare you? We're up to wild, crazy stuff; the show has never sounde...
HOWARD STERN I had spent my life studying these guys, looking up to them, watching their work. Now I was able to ...
VIN DIESEL When you're on top, you're on top.
VENUS WILLIAMS It's not over. We're not divorced. We've been together for over 13 years, and there's a lot of love ...
HILARY SWANK when she looked longer at herself in her new dress, it was she but she living a different life, the ...
MILAN KUNDERA A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.
HEYWOOD C. BROUN I'm going to change cars, ... I'm getting the new Lexus hybrid.
USHER He feels it's important that we embrace it for the next generation. ... Beyond passing along musical...
USHER In my opinion the world is in need of real soul music.
USHER I'm just shy, ... I wanted to meet Robert because I liked his acting. But he was looking at me funny...
VAL KILMER There were 10,000 18-year-old girls at the MTV awards and I wanted to look cool.
VAL KILMER If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man wi...
HENRY FORD We kind of saw it coming because it's an emotional night but at the same time we did beat them befor...
HENRY CLAY I'm thrilled to be going out on the road again. I can't wait to bring not only the hits that people ...
TONI BRAXTON In the first game against Spartanburg, we were very inconsistent. But against Dorman, we moved the b...
TOMMY BOBO My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.
TOMMY LASORDA I'm so excited I had a seven-car police motorcycle escort. I've had escorts before, but nothing like...
TOMMY LASORDA An actress's life is so transitory-suddenly you're a building.
HELEN HAYES I remember the first time he saw 'Saving Private Ryan,' ... That was special to him because of his n...
TOM HANKS Earle asks for a Do-Over,
TOM DELAY I feel . . . low," I say, looking away. "Like, literally low. Flat. It's not . . . sad, exactly. I m...
KATE HART A word of consolation
may sweetly touch the ear.
Now and then a quiet song
will clea...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH He took her like He took my mother. To torment me! To kill me and keep me alive to live dead! She di...
LUCIAN BANE Whatever might be taken from me need not leave me with a deficit in its wake.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really FEEL the loss.
MANDY HALE What an awful thing then, being there in our house together with our daughter gone, trying to be equ...
PAUL HARDING Death doesn't happen instantly. For a little while, you hover around your body, confused. What you w...
CAROLINE FLOHR The reason he could do none of the necessary things to take care of himself, on the few occasions wh...
PETER R. POUNCEY Some people are meant to frame your destiny but not reach the destined destination with you.
ADHISH MAZUMDER If you cannot create a meaning, the things you see will always look meaningless to you!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Man is a useless passion. It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The point was not to attack Jews,
HARRY BELAFONTE The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man
HARRISON FORD What amuses me most about Skip is he often represents everyone in the deal, ... And, he does a reall...
HARRISON FORD That was a different kind of movie that existed in a different time. It's now 40 years later and the...
HARRISON FORD ...and should I die in her care, I would leave smiling because, I will linger in the hills beside he...
KELLIE ELMORE The deeper magic always comes, in the intense sorcery of your inner silence.
CURTIS TYRONE JONES You cannot control the ocean, but you can guide the rivers that feed it.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Learn to make time and everything else will follow.
HARESH SIPPY I hope those players in Cuba will have a chance to compete in it. I hope politics don't get involved...
HANK AARON There was not a lot of conflict in the book. Most it was internal conflict so we had to externalize ...
TERRY MCMILLAN Three cheers for Prohibition. Without it where the hell would I be?
THE WIZARD OF OZ How you can already miss someone when you are in the same room with them, I have no idea. But I do.
KAREN HARRINGTON It's great exploring a new area and it's less posh and more real, which my husband really appreciate...
GWYNETH PALTROW I had an absolutely, extraordinarily unpleasant evening last night trying to get there, ... I had al...
GWYNETH PALTROW She was no longer going to feel pain, or loss, or emptiness. She was no longer going to feel.
BRYN DITCHBURN I got too fed up with films that didn't make you think. I liked the idea of one that you'd have to b...
GUY RITCHIE So far, so good,
GWEN STEFANI Past relationships are a loss, so we have to deal with them like loss. We must fully grieve. We must...
JACKIE VIRAMONTEZ By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
TED WILLIAMS We believe strongly if it was a white person who had been shot in that county, (the shooter) would h...
TED WILLIAMS It's my heart. I left it with you.
N.R. WALKER It might not be distance or time that takes you away from people. Maybe you decide when you let them...
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