Adondo Quotes & Sayings

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. — Thomas Carlyle

I wish they'd shut the gates, and let us play ball with no press and no fans. — Richie Allen

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under. — Holly Near

Most writers need a wound, either physical or spiritual. — Martin Amis

Erra pointed at Curran with her thumb. "You want to marry this? Is there a shortage of men? — Ilona Andrews

You know, when you go to high school or, you know, when kids are younger and there's not an understanding of differences. But I built up a very strong, thick skin. — Alexander Wang

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred; since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other; only the indolence of human nature finds it so hard to pierce through to the other side. — Elizabeth Goudge

I am told I was born. I do not remember ... — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Fue adondo a mi me perdieron
quw logre por fin encontrarme?
Was it where they lost me
that I finally found myself? — Pablo Neruda

Thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more. — Harold Bloom

Was it last month or last year
that the ambulance ran like a hearse
with its siren blowing on suicide -
Dinn, dinn, dinn! -
a noon whistle that kept insisting on life
all the way through the traffic lights?

I have come back
but disorder is not what it was.
I have lost the trick of it!
The innocence of it!
That fellow-patient in his stovepipe hat
with his fiery joke, his manic smile -
even he seems blurred, small and pale.
I have come back,
recommitted,
fastened to the wall like a bathroom plunger,
held like a prisoner
who was so poor
he fell in love with jail. — Anne Sexton

Have a heart which does not trample down simplicity and humility. — Angelica Hopes