Depescata Quotes & Sayings

I really ought to have recognized it for what it was and, perhaps, to have stopped right there - for it was nostalgia, and what inspires nostalgia has been dead a long time — Michael Chabon

The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case? — Zhuangzi

Eyes see only dust and earth, but feel with the heart, and know pure joy.
The delights blossom on all sides in every form, but where is your heart's thread to make a wreath of them?
My master's flute sounds through all things, drawing me out of my lodgings wherever they may be, and while I listen I know that every step I take is in my master's house.
For he is the sea, he is the river that leads to the sea, and he is the landing-place. — Rabindranath Tagore

It was not just for herself that she feared now, but for her baby. He must have sensed her fright, for he moved restlessly inside her. — George R R Martin

The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A deceptive memory may be the key to their originality. — Ned Rorem

I reject the idea that the guy who comes out of Yale and goes to work in the projects in Newark is good, and the guy who goes to work for a white-shoe law firm is bad. We're all mountain rangers. We all have peaks and valleys. — Cory Booker

Fears about artmaking fall into two families: fears about yourself and fears about your reception by others. — David Bayles

Since I joined Congress, I've been shocked at how many times we were forced to vote on 1,000-plus-page bills without ample time to read or review what was in the final legislation. It's no wonder Congress doesn't enact good policy. — Erik Paulsen

Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom. — Gautama Buddha

Your problem is that you don't know how to be happy with unhappiness. — Anthony Breznican

A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him. — Charles Hamilton Houston