Besouro Grande Quotes & Sayings

Why indeed should we carry on and why should we return? Our cup runneth over, and a mute, invincible madness rocks us to sleep. A day comes like this which draws everything to a close; we must then let ourselves sink, like those who swim until exhausted. What do we accomplish? — Albert Camus

A man has only a limited number of ways in which he can express strong emotions or violent passions. He uses the same gestures as when what he feels is only petty and unimportant. He utters the same ordinary words. — Tadeusz Borowski

It is essential that we put an end to steroid abuse and set a better example for aspiring young athletes to follow, so that some day, when they make it in the All Star Game, it will be because of their own natural talents, and not because of a performance enhancing product. — Jim Sensenbrenner

1. Mahabharata (3.281.34) 34. adrohah sarva-bhuteshu karmana manasa gira anugrahas cha danam cha satam dharmah sanatanah Never displaying malice towards any living being through actions, thoughts or words, acts of kindness, and giving in charity; this is the Sanatana Dharma adhered to by righteous persons. — Hanuman Dass

When we are sad ... it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to things that don't change. — Donna Tartt

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences. — Isabel Allende

Character displays the weighty impatience of having to explain something that should already be understood. — Nathan McCall

I understand business and understand the ugly face of baseball, which is the business part of baseball. — Pedro Martinez

Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues. — Martha Beck

A priest is a functionary of a social sort. The society worships certain deities in a certain way, and the priest becomes ordained as a functionary to carry out that ritual. The deity to whom he is devoted is a deity that was there before he came along. But the shaman's powers are symbolized in his own familiars, deities of his own personal experience. His authority comes out of a psychological experience, not a social ordination. — Joseph Campbell

The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three ... The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id. — Sigmund Freud

The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at seventy. We manufacture stories, after all, from the fleeting sensory material that bombards us at every instant, a fragmented series of pictures, conversations, odors, and the touch of things and people. We delete most of it to live with some semblance of order, and the reshuffling of memory goes on until we die. — Siri Hustvedt

You can't always see both sides of the story. Eventually, you have to pick a side and stick with it. No more equivocating. You have to commit. — John Mulaney

It is only dislocated minds whose movements are spasmodic. — Robert Aris Willmott

Consider too, how deep the abyss between life and death; across this, my power can build a bridge, but it can never fill up the frightful chasm. — Johann Ludwig Tieck