Banana Yoshimoto Goodbye Tsugumi Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep. — Desmond Tutu

It's tax season. When I woke this morning and realized it was tax season, I said, My God, didn't we just pay taxes last year? — David Letterman

Some thoughts are like old piece of belongings that need to be disposed to move on. — Richmond Akhigbe

To ensure that our views are credible, our brain accepts what our eye sees. To ensure that our views are positive, our eye looks for what our brain wants. The conspiracy between these two servants allows us to live at the fulcrum of stark reality and comforting illusion. — Daniel Gilbert

At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its terrible finality or the havoc it could wreak on those who'd entrusted the deceased with their hearts. I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality. I couldn't resist stealing up to the edge of doom and peering over the brink. The hint of what was concealed in those shadows terrified me, but I caught sight of something in the glimpse, some forbidden and elemental riddle that was no less compelling than the sweet, hidden petals of a woman's sex.
In my case - and, I believe, in the case of Chris McCandless - that was a very different thing from wanting to die. — Jon Krakauer

It's not that hard to stay grounded. It's the way I was brought up. — Sidney Crosby

My one thought is to get out of New York, to experience something genuinely American. — Henry Miller

I tried to figure out if I felt calmer with a blanket over my head. No I did not was the answer. — Jenny Offill

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
(Audrey Hepburn: Many-Sided Charmer, LIFE Magazine, December 7, 1953) — Audrey Hepburn