Decayable Quotes & Sayings

But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for! — N.H. Kleinbaum

Some of the most provocative TV that I'm inspired by is in the U.K. You guys take it for granted, but in America, we can't do it. — Lee Daniels

I really like Halal food. — Hannibal Buress

I have tasted words, I have seen them. Never had her hands reached out in darkness and felt the texture of pure marble, never had her forehead bent forward and, as against a stone altar, felt safety. I am now saved. Her mind could not then so specifically have seen it, could not have said, Now I will reveal myself in words, words may now supercede a scheme of mathematical-biological definition. Words may be my heritage and with words ... A lady will be set back in the sky ... there was hope in a block of unsubstantiated marble, words could carve and set up solid altars ... Thought followed the wing that beat its silver into seven-branched larch boughs. — H.D.

We don't succeed or fail because of fortune or luck. We succeed because we understand the way the world works and what we have to do. We fail because others understand this better than we do. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

Look who's calling the cauldron black."
"Kettle. It's a kettle. Get your metaphors right."
"That wasn't a metaphor. It was a, you know ... " He stared off into space, blinking. "One of those things that's symbolic of another thing. But isn't the same thing. Just like it."
"You mean a metaphor?"
"No! It's like a story ... like ... a proverb! That's it."
"I'm pretty sure that wasn't a proverb. Maybe it was an analogy."
"I don't think so. — Richelle Mead

Nothing worldly will ever become the Self (the Soul). The Self [the Soul] will never become worldly. Both are separate things. — Dada Bhagwan

I have seen the downside of power. I know the darkness it can create in someone, and I don't want that life. — Bridie Blake

Why did God make all this all so decayable and dieable and harmable and wants to make me realize and scream? — Jack Kerouac

Anger is preverbal, so, by the time you're using words to express an angry feeling, you're already imposing loads of structure on that primal experience. — John Darnielle

Health and healthcare are not synonymous — Archelle Georgiou

My body flopped to the ground as I
realized my doom. I was in love. Finally. It's what every girl dreams about from the moment she starts
dreaming, to fall in love and be in love. Well I was in love, and I hated it. — The Hippie

God's great love is the grace of redemption. — Lailah Gifty Akita