Arsenius Rotterdam Quotes & Sayings

The false burdens fall away. We come into rhythm with ourselves. Our clay shape gradually learns to walk beautifully on this magnificent earth. A — John O'Donohue

People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. — Neil Gaiman

A human being is bound by emotion, enslaved by their desires. A person is never really at peace with themselves because they live in the spectrum of human consciousness. — Frederick Lenz

The first thing that went wrong, according to Fat, had to do with the radio. Listening to it one night- he had not been able to sleep for a long time- he heard the radio saying hideous words, sentences which it could not be saying. Beth, being asleep, missed that. So that could have been Fat's mind breaking down; by then his psyche was disintegrating at a terrible velocity.
Mental illness is not funny. — Philip K. Dick

Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly rising in mental force to be the comforter and supporter of her husband under misfortune, and abiding with unshrinking firmness the bitterest blast of adversity. — Washington Irving

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor — Marcus Aurelius

A question from the floor: are there tribes whose lexicon lacks the words 'I love you'? Or have they all died out. — Julian Barnes

All life is sacred. Even life that comes in forms that we don't understand." - Obi-Wan Kenobi — John Jackson Miller

To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound — Duke Of Wellington

I had friends growing up; there were other home-schoolers we were in touch with so we weren't isolated, and I've always been happy engaged in my own projects and pursuing my own goals. — Christopher Paolini

The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable. — Henry Miller

That's one reason why a civil war is worse than any other sort. When two parties in a given country resort to arms to settle political differences, every man is a potential enemy to every other man, and the distinction between legalized killing and murder is not clearly drawn in the minds of average men, who are incapable of sustained thought. Death is held to be a fitting reward for those who dare hold contrary views, and a nation involved in a civil war is a breeding ground for children reared to look with tolerance on next to nothing but violence. — Kenneth Roberts

Ove cushions all your irritations, unnatural instincts, hatreds and immaturities. — Ray Bradbury

A secret isn't a secret unless you keep it to yourself. — Marissa Carmel