Diegetically Quotes & Sayings

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed. — Terry Gilliam

The Lutheran alternative to the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation which is called consubstantiation, in which the bread and wine are not changed but added to, so that Christ becomes really present along with them but they remain. — Peter Kreeft

To write a novel is to dream while awake, then express the dream to the reader in an absorbing way. The road leading from the writer's inner world to the readers' is paved with prose. — Alan Joshua

For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make. — Gabriela Sabatini

What planet are you living on? Who are you trying to convince - me or yourself. — Martina Navratilova

In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end. — Emile Zola

In a better world, he thought, I'd have followed that man to hell. — Daniel Abraham

Sometimes they reasoned thus: "The Messiah ought to do such a thing, now Jesus is the Messiah, therefore Jesus has done such a thing." At other times, by an inverse process, it was said: "Such a thing has happened to Jesus; now Jesus is the Messiah; therefore such a thing was to happen to the Messiah." — Ernest Renan