De Helaasheid Der Dingen Boek Quotes & Sayings

Remember blessed children of men that the purpose of the real science should be to increase the happiness and to free the race from every external condition that would not be beneficial for the elation of man to the pristine greatness of his original cosmic destiny. — Count Of St. Germain

What makes us feel pessimistic about the world, ultimately, is the way the media encourage us to believe that our fate hangs on the every move of the promise-breaking, terminally disappointing Teflon liars in Washington. — Matt Taibbi

Don't you *ever* let go?"
"I haven't yet."
"Why?"
"I suppose ... because in this world, after everyone panics, there's always got to be someone to tip the wee out of the shoe. — Terry Pratchett

Everybody has an instinctive desire to do good things and avoid evil. But that desire is sterile as long as we have no experience of what it means to be good ... — Thomas Merton

And my grandmother had bought them in preference to other books, just as she would have preferred to take a house that had a gothic dovecot, or some other such piece of antiquity as would have a pleasant effect on the mind, filling it with a nostalgic longing for impossible journeys through the realms of time. — Marcel Proust

But what's done is done — AliaZalea

I can't love you unless I give you up. — Edith Wharton

Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it. — Thornton Wilder

Crime shows are really popular, in general, but usually, at the end of every episode, you have to let go of the people that you've invested in and then, the next week, get somebody else. — Mireille Enos

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things. — Blaise Pascal

When you've reached a certain point in your life, there are people out there waiting to see you fall. but rather than let gravity take you down, sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands and fly. — Justin Bieber

Words aren't good enough for a lot of things, but we have to try. — Ava Dellaira

I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances. — Manu Bennett