Dissident Right Quotes & Sayings

Happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry. — Nan Fairbrother

IT'S NOT THAT ANYONE CAN BE A HERO, BUT THAT A HERO CAN COME FROM ANYWHERE. BUT THE KEY IS THAT THEY HAVE TO HAVE SOMETHING INSIDE THEM. A SPARK. A SENSE OF MORALITY. A YEARNING. — Film Crit Hulk!

He seems to be attracting religions the way a dog attracts fleas. — Yann Martel

Just as the sailor yearns for port, the writer longs for the last line. — Alix Christie

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and ... people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion. — Denis Diderot

At times all you need is a bottle of fine old wine, a mellifluous piece of music playing in the background and a good book to spend the entire night in a magical bliss! — Avijeet Das

I have read somewhere that we often spend a lifetime searching for what we already have. — Mary Balogh

If you're not thinking about numbers, you're probably not thinking. — John Derbyshire

May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him. — Roman Payne

But if I am not a criminal, I beg to be permitted to go abroad with my wife temporarily, for at least one year, with the right to return as soon as it becomes possible in our country to serve great ideas in literature without cringing before little men, as soon as there is at least a partial change in the prevailing view concerning the role of the literary artist. ("Letter To Stalin") — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Seek truth! Seek truth in the darkness, under the oceans, above the clouds; seek it everywhere and every time! Stop deceiving yourself with untruth, seek truth! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Poetry is what gets lost in translation. — Robert Frost

Lovemaking is the consolation for living in the body, just as art is the consolation for living in the world. — Laura Argiri

This will help us next year with the World Cup. I can imagine a lot of visitors from abroad will be here and asking what happened between 1933 and 1945. A lot of that will come up. I think this will make an important contribution to those discussions. — Otto Schily

I love the slider. I'll throw it anytime. It helps the curve. The last five feet, it dives toward the left-handed hitter's box. It's a pitch that looks like a fastball coming in. It's a pitch I throw when I need a ground ball with a man on base. — Kerry Wood