Basils Quotes & Sayings

There's something about [pain] that excites me. If I'm feeling really awful about something, it's because I haven't experienced it before. There's something I need to learn from it. — Rachael Yamagata

Nobody will be able to forgive me but myself. — Ding Ling

Definitions belong to the definer, not the defined, & I no longer wished to have my life & death foretold by others. I had endured too much to be reduced to an idea. Onto that pyre I threw so many, many words - that entire untrue literature of the past which had shackled & subjugated my as surely as the spiked iron collars & leg locks & jagged basils & balls & chains & headshaving - that had so long denied me my free voice & the stories I needed to tell. I no longer wished to read lies as to who & why I was. I knew who I was — Richard Flanagan

Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals. — Clarence Darrow

It was your inner spirit and not your outward appearance that mattered, — Jeannette Walls

But tell me truly, milovidnost, had I asked you to elope with me that night, would you not have followed me to the ends of the earth? (Jack)
I wouldn't have followed you to the end of the corridor. (Lorelei) — Kinley MacGregor

The universe story and the human story are a play of forces rational and nonrational, conscious and unconscious; of fate and fortune, nature and nurture. Forces of good and evil play out their tragedies and their graces - leading us to catastrophes, backtracking, mutations, transgressions, regroupings, enmities, failures, mistakes, and impossible dilemmas. — Richard Rohr

Turkey, Australia, and Japan are three of my top destinations. — Rick Riordan

I definitely smelled a delicious odor of steak and onions. But it turned out to be only a dirty shirt. — Thor Heyerdahl