Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. —Nathaniel Hawthorne More about this quote Tags: history time experience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end. —Benjamin Disraeli More about this quote Tags: delusion ignorance magic live confusion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. —Brendan Gill More about this quote Tags: life seriousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: politics opinion freedom happiness tyranny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. —Francois de La Rochefoucauld More about this quote Tags: love ghosts Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You made me happy when I should have been miserable. You were the only person who could reach me, and maybe that scared me. You accepted me—broken and faulty. —Monica Alexander in Buried Castles More about this quote Tags: fear acceptance happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. —Kurt Vonnegut More about this quote Tags: criticism triviality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that! —Tom Lehrer More about this quote Tags: love humor people Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don’t know what comes next. I can’t know, until I’ve walked the road I’ve chosen. I don’t have a plan, and there is no map for this. It’s terrifying, but there’s a spark of exhilaration that gives me hope that the choice I just made could turn out to be right and this feels infinitely better than the weight of regret. —Jessi Kirby in Golden More about this quote Tags: fear future regret Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. —Walter Bagehot More about this quote Tags: writing knowledge books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. —Soren Kierkegaard More about this quote Tags: freedom thinking speech Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. —H. Jackson Brown, Jr. More about this quote Tags: love relationship happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. —Charles Baudelaire More about this quote Tags: beauty nobility reason rationality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: shame Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there. —Clare Booth Luce More about this quote Tags: censorship charity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email