Author Quotes

Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside.

Beautiful... as the fortuitous encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table.

Comte de Lautréamont

"A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."

Charles Dickens

I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.

Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one's fellow men.

There are times when Science does not satisfy.

Rudyard Kipling

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

In the house, and on the street, how many, many feet you meet.

An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Sholem Aleichem

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

Caecilius Statius

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

Summary riposte
To the dreary wail
There's no knowing what
Love is all about.
Poets know a lot.

To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

Agatha Christie

Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.

Johannes V. Jensen

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

Alexander Pushkin

Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.

The list of cities lost was long and disheartening, even granting exaggeration by the reporters. Soldiers defeated always overestimate the strength of their foe. That soothes egos suspecting their own inferiority.