Archive 81 Quotes & Sayings

Do not mourn me, friends
I fall as a shooting star
Into the next life — John Scalzi

Why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world? — Mary Oliver

Sleeping as quiet as death, side by wrinkled side, toothless, salt and brown, like two old kippers in a box. — Dylan Thomas

It's sort of my go-to stock image of my childhood, actually. I think it has something to do with knowing I'll never be able to go back to that time that makes me cry every time I listen to it. — Mindy Kaling

Pigpen is in his late twenties and thinks he's all handsome with his blonde hair and big muscles. Because he was a Navy SEAL or Army Ranger or something outrageous like that, he also thinks he's awesome, but he doesn't impress. — Katie McGarry

She knew things that nobody had ever told her. For instance, the words of the trees and the wind. She often spoke to falling seeds and said, "Ah hope you fall on soft ground," because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed. She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. — Zora Neale Hurston

From the day I got out of school, I was looking for an idea. — Tom Golisano

The passing of Marxism-Leninism first from China and then from the Soviet Union will mean its death as a living ideology ... For while there may be some isolated true believers left in places like Managua, Pyongyang, or Cambridge, MA ... — Francis Fukuyama

she was one of the lights of the world - one of the wells of truth, whose springs are fed by the rains on the eternal hills. — George MacDonald

Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end. — Salman Rushdie

Well, that's convenient," Puck mused. "I really need to get a few of those things. — Julie Kagawa

Loving you is a full-time job. It's a great job, don't get me wrong. It's the best job in the universe. But it's not easy. — Carrie Jones

Therese could not think of a single question that would be proper to ask, because all her questions were so enormous. — Patricia Highsmith