Disabusing Quotes & Sayings

The amazing feeling of being alive beautifully conquers the fear of death — Munia Khan

The sun is still shining
It's a beautiful day out
Some things are okay, right? — Malcolm McCormick

When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day? — Daniel Handler

Missing what most of the time? The babbling faceless agora, the fame, the parties, the pop of flash bulbs? The lovers, the gaiety, the champagne? The solitude carved out of celebrity, poring over charts by a single lamp on a wide desk in a venerable hotel? Room service, coffee before dawn? The company of one friend, two? The choice: All of it or not? Some or none? Now, not now, maybe later? — Peter Heller

Everything begins by making your audience pay attention. — Darin Bradley

The disabusing a man strongly possessed with an opinion of his own worth is the very same ill office that was done to the fool at Athens, who fancied all the ships that came into the harbor were his own. — Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

It's easy for us to feel separate from other people and from other forms of life, especially if we don't have a reliable connection to our own inner world. Without insight into our internal cycles of pleasure and pain, desires and fears, there is a strong sense of being removed, apart or disconnected. When we do have an understanding of our inner lives, it provides an intuitive opening, even without words, to the ties that exist between ourselves and others. — Sharon Salzberg

I love reviews. Anybody who tells you they don't read reviews is a liar. — Elaine Stritch