Creakings Quotes & Sayings

For the good that I would,'" he quoted, "'I do not; and the evil that I would not, that I do.'" "Who said that?" "The man who invented Christianity - St. Paul. — Aldous Huxley

My dad's life was magnificent, but only if I let myself see and remember more than his years of decline. — Lisa J. Shultz

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics. — Alva Myrdal

...he wails and protests and loves me even more. And I'm humbled and honoured and touched and so fucking happy he can find this thing in me to love. — Alexis Hall

Are you living your dream or someone's dream? — Lailah Gifty Akita

She lay for a long time listening to the mysterious sounds given forth by old houses at night, the undefinable creakings, rustlings, and sighings, which would have frightened Virginia had she remained awake, but which sounded to Nan like the long murmur of the past breaking on the shores of a sleeping world. — Edith Wharton

Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. He takes the measure of his own small soul, and thinks the world no larger. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration. — Steve Coogan

Meanwhile the Viscount of Sylvania, who could no longer walk, now seldom left his castle. His friends and his family were with him all day, and he could own up to the most blameworthy folly, the most absurd extravagance, state the most flagrant paradox, or imply the most shocking fault without his kinsmen reproaching him or his friends joking or disagreeing with him. It was as if they had tacitly absolved him of any responsibility for his deeds and words. Above all they seemed to be trying to keep him from hearing the last sounds, to muffle with sweetness, if not drown out with tenderness, the final creakings of his body, from which life was ebbing. — Marcel Proust

There was a point in school when I was, like, thirteen, that I didn't feel comfortable at all. — Rita Ora