Criticore Quotes & Sayings

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. — Jacques Derrida

Some of us rush through life and some of us saunter through life. Mrs. Vesey sat through life. — Wilkie Collins

Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost contemptible, and glance off us lightly ... Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance. Bathrobes. Yawning and stretching. Real tomatoes. — Barbara Holland

My whole body finally connected the dots, and I realized that even if we were never together, she'd ruined me and I'd never feel that way about anyone again. — Julie Murphy

Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out. — Frederick Lenz

The cold never bothered me anyway. — Idina Menzel

Every time she smiled at him had been the first time all over again. — Neil Gaiman

Assume everything you put on the Internet can and will be seen not only by the person you're talking about, but your future romantic partners and bosses, too. — Mara Wilson

Mistakes remember'd are not faults forgot. — Robert Henry Newell

Humans do not want to be better. A person may want to swim better or have a better smile. But they don't want humanity to swim better or have a better smile. It isn't even a question of "want," they don't care. I don't care. — Noah Cicero

Open yer mind to the world, kids. No point havin' yer windows open if yer don't pull back the curtains to let in the light! - Grandpa's favourite saying to Kirsten and Jeremy. Quoted in The Hybrid and the Emeralds of Elisar — Suellen Drysdale

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent. — Elizabeth Edwards

No one split with confusion could possibly produce a reasonable conclusion. — Haruki Murakami

You are all alike, you people. You never learn the truth
that God knows nothing. — Graham Greene

Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain-top is covered in mist, knows that he must lay himself down and die before morning comes, stole upon him, paling the colour of his eyes, giving him, even in the two minutes of his turn on the terrace, the bleached look of withered old age. Yet he would not die lying down; he would find some crag of rock, and there, his eyes fixed on the storm, trying to the end to pierce the darkness, he would die standing. He would never reach R. — Virginia Woolf