Asketismus Quotes & Sayings

Books are like puppies, they wait for you with unconditional love and welcome you back whenever you return. — J.D. Barker

To these things do writers sink; and then the critics tell them that they "talk for effect"; and then the writers answer: "What the devil else should we talk for? Ineffectualness? — G.K. Chesterton

The Hum-bird paused, a long needle sliding out of the hole in its beak. It bent quickly, poking the needle into Scarlett's face. Its head popped back up and then repeated the motion in three more spots on the Jordan's face before hopping to the other side and starting over.

It hopped back and forth a few more times, pausing now and then with its injector, plumping skin and filling the fine lines in Scarlett's face. After examining its works, the needle withdrew and another one protruded, glistening pink in the dimmed light. This time the Hum-bird hopped around, paralyzing any damaging nerve clusters that over time would be bound to cause wrinkles in the skin. — April Adams

Youth is almost invariably liberal, age conservative. Adopt — Charlotte M. Brame

Why not?" she asks petulantly. "Give me one good reason we shouldn't." "Because trying to fuck you is like trying to French-kiss a very ... small and ... lively gerbil?" I tell her. "I don't know." "Yes?" she says. "And?" "With braces?" I finish, shrugging. — Bret Easton Ellis

The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death. — Northrop Frye

I have never had to fight so hard to take a breath. — Amy A. Bartol

Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Truth is his staff in his voyage through life; commonplaces are the bread in his bag and the wine in his jug. — Remy De Gourmont

Give a real meaning to what you wear; wear what has a real meaning. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

What saved me, as I now see, was that it turned to something else altogether. It didn't last as suspense - it was superseded by horrible proofs. — Henry James