Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. —Albert Camus More about this quote Tags: compromise heartbreak Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. —Horace Walpole More about this quote Tags: solitude relationships people companionship Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness. —Andre Malraux More about this quote Tags: wonder mystery prison universe stars Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: knowledge pleasure Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. —Wilson Mizner More about this quote Tags: gossip talk Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. —Fred Allen More about this quote Tags: fame celebrity recognition anonymity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you. —Don Marquis More about this quote Tags: love hate thinking laziness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious. —P.G. Wodehouse More about this quote Tags: maturity age immaturity adulthood mid-life crisis Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
That’s what life is about: People come and go. —Cecelia Ahern in Love, Rosie More about this quote Tags: life people relationship ephemerality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself. —Ethel Barrymore More about this quote Tags: humor maturity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. —Andre Breton More about this quote Tags: longing yearning naming Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. —Christopher Morley More about this quote Tags: life Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. —William Goldman More about this quote Tags: life death fairness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And who shall say — whatever disenchantment follows — that we ever forget magic, or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple tree, the singing, and the gold? —Thomas Wolfe More about this quote Tags: wonder magic earth singing goal disenchantment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word love here not merely in a personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace — not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth. —James Baldwin More about this quote Tags: love life fear knowledge happiness growth daring Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email