100 Years Of Solitude Themes Quotes & Sayings

It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx. — George Orwell

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers. — Agatha Christie

Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself. — D.H. Lawrence

To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it. — Karl Kraus

I was full of faults; he took them and me all home. — Charlotte Bronte

The Divine Comedy, and indeed our own spiritual life, is not about rejection, or suppression, it is about redemption. — Malcolm Guite

A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy's guts, he comes. — Bertolt Brecht

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

You are a being of light composed of cells of light joined together in a matrix. — Frederick Lenz

He who unlocks his greatest potential will reap his greatest treasures. — Matshona Dhliwayo

[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we must strive, we must engage ourselves with the business of the world for our own sake, because through that, and through contemplation in equal measure, our soul is purified and brought closer to the divine ... Thought and deed conjoined are crucial ... The attempt must be made; the outcome is irrelevant. Right action is a pale material reflection of the divine, but reflection it is, nonetheless. Define your goal and exert reason to accomplish it by virtuous action; successs or failure is secondary. — Iain Pears

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys. — Thomas Jefferson

So do flux and reflux
the rhythm of change
alternate and persist in everything under the sky. — Thomas Hardy

I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language. — S.I. Hayakawa