Dampest Quotes & Sayings

Nobody is born as a teacher and only a few die as a teacher! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

She talks. People talk easily to me. They think a bald albino hunchback can't hide anything. My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves. They begin out of simple courtesy. Just being visible is my biggest confession, so they try to set me at ease by revealing our equality, by dragging out their apparent deformities. That's how it starts. But I am like a stranger on the bus and they get hooked on having a listener. They go too far because I am one listener who is in no position to judge or find fault. They stretch out their dampest secrets because a creature like me has no values or morals. If I am "good" (and they assume that I am), it's obviously for lack of opportunity to be otherwise. And I listen. I listen eagerly, warmly, because I care. They tell me everything eventually. — Katherine Dunn

The heart is a strange thing; it always craves the things it can't get. Desire is a dangerous thing, it can make or break one's life, and humans are difficult creatures always seeking things they cannot have.'

My 7th book is coming soon....! — Tim I. Gurung

The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude. — Victor Burgin

If i can't be your true love, i want to be your worst nightmare. — Ariel Seraphino

ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. — Ambrose Bierce

A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's tooth. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It wasn't a bang or a boom. It was the dampest, most corpulent eruption in the history of terminal flatulence. — Terry Pratchett

The appalling society of tyrants and slaves in
which we survive will find its death and transfiguration only on the level of creation. — Albert Camus

And there are two types of stories. One type is one's own story. The other type is telling the stories of others. Thanks to this genre, writers of nonfiction can now use the tools of the reporter, the points of view and ear for dialog of a novelist, and the passion and wordplay of the poet. — Lee Gutkind

Even if one turns away from harmony for just one night, suffering ensues. — I.J. Parker