Cannibalises Quotes & Sayings

We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Still, there was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped down a cliff, with man-eating tigers above him and a lethal fall below him, who managed to stop his fall halfway down the side of the cliff, holding on for dear life. There was a clump of strawberries beside him, and certain death above him and below. What should he do? went the question. And the reply was, Eat the strawberries. — Neil Gaiman

It's hard to see yourself changing until you're so far from the person you used to be that it's hard to remember ever being them at all. — Kaitlyn Oruska

We live in an age that cannibalises its past because it has lost faith in its future. — Paul McAuley

Perplexity is the beginning of a new way. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind. — Susanna Kaysen

Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain's simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself. — Richard Dawkins

If professional wrestling did not exist, could you come up with this idea? Could you envision the popularity of huge men in tiny bathing suits, pretending to fight? — Jerry Seinfeld

I had a Masters of Fine Arts, but so did thousands of other graduates every year, and we were all competing for the same jobs. I realistically didn't expect to become a teacher, and after two or three years, I accepted defeat. — Kurt Wagner