Ashed Quotes & Sayings

I know he is really happy, and yet I can never catch him at it. — G.K. Chesterton

Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door. Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness. Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts. — Irvin D. Yalom

Don't presume the benevolence of your leaders. — Dave Eggers

Oh God." I lost the ability to speak under such glorious torture. "He won't help you, Cleo. Might as well implore my name instead. — Pepper Winters

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden. — Ruth Stout

He knew it was the price of enjoying life, that if he was to be alert to the things he now found pleasure in, he would have to accept its cost as well. — Hanya Yanagihara

Lies kill love, it's been said. Well, what about frankness, then. — Abel Hermant

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. — Jean-Paul Sartre

A warm burning sensation fl ashed in her breasts, and she pressed them with backs of her wrists to stop the milk before it fl owed.

"Ugh, I'm letting down. We'll have to make this fast so I can go pump in the bathroom. I'm used to nursing every couple of hours."

The horror in Felix's eyes was so intense it seemed painful. "Pretend you didn't just say that."

"Say what? I didn't say anything."

He shook his head in disgust. — Shannon Hale

The art of transformation is a very important thing to me, and I always believe I can say something more truthful through characters that are further away from me. — Andy Serkis

I am really fortunate to have parents who supported my plan to become an actress when I was a little kid. And then there was my grandma. She was the best. She was always there and ready to drive me to all my plays and stuff. — Keiko Agena

All in all, I was harking back to the Ancient Greeks. When you get old, you always hark back to the Ancient Greeks. — Michel Houellebecq

You and I happen to one another every day,
Run. Collide. Disseminate. Scatter. Float. Under the melted atom.
But did not react and were not ashed away.
Every day, we happen to each other,
To anticipate the lost words of a half-burned paper.
To salvage our shattered bits of heart. — Nishikant

I don't feel uncomfortable in America, but every once in a while, I'm reminded that people don't see me the way I see me. It doesn't change my life, but it gives me a consciousness about it. — Chang-rae Lee

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. — Ornette Coleman