Calianese Quotes & Sayings

Death is such a strange thing. One minute you're here and then just gone. You'd think there would be an anteroom, a place where you could be visited before you go. — John Banville

Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life? — Sylvia Plath

God's Doorbell [10w]
Earth is God's doorbell,
unfortunately, half the time
nobody's home. — Beryl Dov

I would suggest to you that at this moment you are the only self that you have ever had; you've never had a childhood; there wasn't a five-minute-ago time. — Frederick Lenz

I didn't have any qualifications when I left school - I had three O-levels. — Simon Cowell

Though I yearn to help, I will not violate your freedom. I stand silently in the background of your mind, waiting for you to remember that I am with you. — Sarah Young

The habit of sardonic contemplation is the hardest habit of all to break. — Angela Carter

Better to be healthy and poor than sick and rich. And, if you were rich and sick you would spend all your money to be well, if necessary. Poor and sick is a very bad circumstance to be in however and so health must be the first priority of a ZCL lifestyle. — J. R. Delcamp

It happens all the time. Sometimes the most obvious choices are the hardest to see. — Jessica Brody

Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly. — Fernando Pessoa

The first key to a purposeful living is to accept the responsibility of your mission. When you agree "yes" to the calling, then you ask God "why?". — Israelmore Ayivor

I don't want to reject my life. I want to change my life without changing my life. — Gretchen Rubin