Dincolo De Noi Quotes & Sayings

He yawned; he had finished the day, and he had also finished with his youth. Various tried and proved rules of conduct had already discreetly offered him their services: disillusioned epicureanism, smiling tolerance, resignation, flat seriousness, stoicism
all the aids whereby a man may savor, minute by minute, like a connoisseur, the failure of a life ... 'I have attained the age of reason. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Did dreams, he wondered, when they arrived, make a sound? The smallest kind, like the noise of an embryo being conceived, or a snowflake touching down? — Anthony Doerr

He never tired of watching her breathe. Every night spent beside her was an honour. — Colin Cotterill

The end of all knowledge should be service to others. — Cesar Chavez

If you have discovered a truth, tell it first to a parrot! Every new truth needs an insistent repetition! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is, I came to realize, what the mind wants and what the body wants. The mind can excite the body, but its desires can also be false; whereas the body, the animal, wants what it wants. — Claire Messud

He brushed away the thunder, then the clouds, then the colossal illusion of heaven. Yet still the sky was blue. — Wallace Stevens

If in a city we had six vacant lots available to the youngsters of a certain neighborhood for playing ball, it might be "development" to build houses on the first, and the second, and the third, and the fourth, and even the fifth, but when we build houses on the last one, we forget what houses are for. — Aldo Leopold

The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets; for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague hope of finding a clue to genius in such revelations. — Andre Malraux

If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious. — Florence Welch

If there's a better book than this, I haven't written it. — Stephen Colbert

Latin is an abomination! — Lew Wallace