To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. —David Viscott More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The greatest pleasure of life is love. —Euripides More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. —William Sloane Coffin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort, you will get neither comfort nor truth, only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair. —C. S. Lewis More about this quote Tags: truth despair comfort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth. —Kahlil Gibran More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth, we must still march on. —Stopford Augustus Brooke More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself — except why he was born and the meaning of his unique life? —Margaret Storm Jameson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. —Robert Benchley More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The experience is there, the reality is there, but how to get at it? Everything I type turns into a lie simply because it is not the truth. —Joyce Carol Oates More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. —William Blake More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Once, when a GI was visiting Pablo Picasso during the liberation of France, he said that he could not understand the artist's paintings: "Why do you paint a person looking from the side and from the front at the same time?" Picasso asked, "Do you have a girlfriend?" "Yes," replied the soldier. "Do you have a picture of her?" The soldier pulled from his wallet a photograph of the girl. Picasso looked at it in mock astonishment and asked, "Is she so small? —Richard Kehl More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You don't see things as they are. You see things as you are. —Talmud More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We say, "Seeing is believing," but actually . . . we are all much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe nearly all the time and only occasionally seeing what we can't believe. —Robert Anton Wilson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." . . . I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions, like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects to "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar. —Jeffrey Eugenides More about this quote Tags: regret experience happiness joy sadness emotion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. —George Orwell More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email