169134 Quotes & Sayings

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them. — Flannery O'Connor

But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water and a forest without trees. — Lemony Snicket

You can tell you're reading a really good book when you forget all about everything else and know you'll die if you get to at least the end of the chapter — Christopher Paul Curtis

Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body. — Leo Tolstoy

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death — Ruben Dario

I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war. — Hiam Abbass

My favorite albums are really short. — Thomas Mars

If you can't change reality, change your perceptions of it. — Audre Lorde

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people. — Bono

Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings - an awareness of the tragic sense of life. — Sam Keen

The key to why things change is the key to everything. — James E. Burke