23360 Quotes & Sayings

But we-' she glanced at him as if to ascertain his position, 'we see each other only now and then-'
'Like lights in a storm-'
'In the midst of a hurricane,' she concluded, as the window shook beneath the pressure of the wind. — Virginia Woolf

I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the colour of a rose in Bengal. — Jorge Luis Borges

I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens. — Gore Vidal

The world we are a part of now is difficult to accept, unimaginably difficult. I don't know if I accept everything even now. I don't know how I can. But acceptance moves past denial, and maybe there's a defiance in that, too. — Jeff VanderMeer

You are a special and unique person, who has never lived before and who will never live in the future — Sunday Adelaja

If you can be anything else but a writer, be it. — Kate Braverman

Politeness responses you with the cheers of truthfulness. — Jeswant Gembali

Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits. — Samuel Beckett

I don't know myself," he said. "I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me, and I say, 'That white board must become something!' I work for a long time, I come back home dissatisfied, I put it away in the closet. When I have rested a little I go to look at it with a kind of fear. I am still dissatisfied because I have too clearly in my mind the splendid original to be content with what I have made of it. But after all, I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered, there may be mistakes or gaps, but there is something in it of what the woods or beach or figure has told me. Do you understand?" "No. — Irving Stone

There is no need for a long, persuasive introduction about self-confidence. If you are not a confident person, you already know it. — Stephen Richards

All you have to do is believe, baby, believe you're the best in the world and you'll get here. — T.J. Dillashaw

Holy fuck. Testing, testing. Is this thing on or has Botox already begun to corrode her brain cells? — S.L. Jennings

What is behind you is gone, what is in front of you awaits. — Alice Hoffman

Freud put it beautifully: the aim of psychoanalysis is to help the patient let go of the delusional suffering of his neuroses and experience the misery of actual reality. — Tim Farrington

If lilies would grow
backwards,
if roses would grow
backwards,
if all those roots
could see the stars
& the dead not close
their eyes,
we would become like swans. — Federico Garcia Lorca