Brachiating Beast Quotes & Sayings

Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundest tragic depths of the essential dearth in which its subject's roots are plunged. The natural inheritance of everyone who is capable of spiritual life is an unsubdued forest where the wolf howls and the obscene bird of night chatters. — Henry James Sr.

Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Shadow turned, slowly, streaming images of himself as he moved, frozen moments, each him captured in a fraction of a second, every tiny movement lasting for an infinite period. The images that reached his mind made no sense: it was like seeing the world through the multifaceted jewelled eyes of a dragonfly, but each facet saw something completely different, and he was unable to combine the things he was seeing, or thought he was seeing, into a whole that made any sense. — Neil Gaiman

What an astonishing thing a book is. — Carl Sagan

I remind you that there are churches so completely out of the hands of God that if the Holy Spirit withdrew from them, they wouldn't find it out for many months — A.W. Tozer

It feels like God visits everywhere else, but lives in Africa. — Will Smith

Like Beauty. But she only pricked her finger. I had a spindle through my heart. — Francesca Lia Block

To drive a woman away, tell her that you are unemployed. To bore her, tell her that you are single. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

And I'm not going to be my dad's clone. And women don't turn me on. And Oliver is my home." -Rusty (Christmas Kitsch) — Amy Lane

You're
swimming so hard in this ocean.
Don't you know
if you float,
it will always hold you up? — Terra Elan McVoy