15660 Quotes & Sayings

Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude. — Karl Barth

To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life ... to beauty all is forgiven. — Muriel Barbery

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. — Henry David Thoreau

Go and you will see that nothing is as wonderful as our dreams can make it — Carolyn Turgeon

And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of colour across the sky - so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime. — Karl Ove Knausgard

If you think hitting 40 is liberating, wait until you hit 50; and I was surprised at how liberating it was. The anticipation of something is always much worse than the reality. — Michelle Pfeiffer

Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well. — Neil LaBute

A man is known by the books he reads. — Ralph Waldo Emerson