Clavicles That Protrude Quotes & Sayings

I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false, inside true. — Jamaica Kincaid

The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape,
In forms imaginary, th' unguided days
And rotten times that you shall look upon
When I am sleeping with my ancestors. — William Shakespeare

I only say this because a positive evolution happened in my life when I realized healthy relationships happen best between healthy people. — Donald Miller

The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't. — Cormac McCarthy

Think big: Universe is a village, a small place! When you think big, all will get smaller! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every love gives you wings. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Nature ... has made it impossible for us to have any communication from this earth with the other great bodies of the universe, in our present state; and it is highly possible that he has likewise cut off all communication betwixt the other planets, and betwixt the different systems. ... We observe, in all of them, enough to raise our curiosity, but not to satisfy it ... It does not appear to be suitable to the wisdom that shines throughout all nature, to suppose that we should see so far, and have our curiosity so much raised ... only to be disappointed at the end ... This, therefore, naturally leads us to consider our present state as only the dawn or beginning of our existence, and as a state of preparation or probation for farther advancement. ... — Colin Maclaurin

Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything can help it much. The problem does not apply if he is not first rate because he has already sold his soul for a swimming pool. — William Faulkner

They call it kintsugi. The pot is shattered, then carefully reassembled with a resin mixed with gold. It symbolizes how we must incorporate our wounds into who we are, rather than try to merely repair and forget them. — David Wong

Man's eternal disease: To strive desperately to be noticed! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself. — Virginia Woolf

This day's nothingness
as if from spite
became a flame
and scorched the lips
of children and poets. — Adam Zagajewski