Disquietingly Bleak Quotes & Sayings

Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment. — Frederick Lenz

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion. — Giacomo Leopardi

Children and journalists need what they don't need actually. — Raheel Farooq

It's so unrewarding, being a woman. — Soseki Natsume

I never read comics as a kid. I guess I was lazy and watched cartoons instead. — Kirsten Dunst

I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts. — Barbara Kingsolver

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else. — John Irving

The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter. — Robert Breault

Men give the same lines to different women for the same reason women wear the same perfume for different men; we all try the things that work. — Warren Farrell

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint. — Algernon H. Blackwood

People look at me and say I've got it all,
But when you're standing at the top you've got
A log, long way yo fall
And tell me if i do
Can i depend on you?
Will you be the man
Who will catch me if you can?
'Cause I'm fallin' hard
I'm fallin' fast
And i gotta know
If it's gonna last.
You're the one i need
To teach me to believe — Carolee Dean

I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time. — Wynton Marsalis

Almost all the prosperity of a public society and civil community does, under God, depend on their rulers. They are like the main springs or wheels in a machine that keep every part in their due motion, and are in the body politic, as in the vitals in the body natural, and as the pillars and the foundation in a building. — Jonathan Edwards

I think if we can be totally nonviolent within our own self, because we are part of the web of life, we will restore cosmic harmony. — Deepak Chopra

I've found that if I tell somebody 'Eat this and don't do that,' it's not only not helpful, it's counterproductive because even more than being healthy, we want to feel free and in control, and as soon as somebody tells us to do something, there's a tendency to do just the opposite. — Dean Ornish