Drachmae Quotes & Sayings

Jim Morrison tells me that people are looking at the streets while I am looking at the moon. I do not feel connected enough [with the issues] to throw stones at a policeman. I want to throw stones at the whole world. — Nico

And this is my most selfish thought, that if I lose the people I love what is left of my own life will consist only of grief. — Abigail Thomas

Every country has a dark side of their history. — Miyavi

Travelers aren't found. They're called. — Chess Desalls

[H]e found poetry more comforting than Scripture - and his ability to forge from his life a cogent, powerful tale of living with death. — Paul Kalanithi

To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae. — Aristophanes

Like mythology, Greek philosophy has a tendency to personify ideas. And the Sophist is not merely a teacher of rhetoric for a fee of one or fifty drachmae (Crat.), but an ideal of Plato's in which the falsehood of all mankind is reflected. — Plato

And being alone and being lonely were two different things but they felt exactly the same: they felt horrible. — Sarra Manning

No future triumph or metamorphosis can justify the pitiful blighting of a human being against his will. — Peter Wessel Zapffe

I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae. — Aulus Gellius

Our legacy is not found in all the 'stuff' we've accumulated on our life's journey. It's written in the memories of those whose lives we've touched along the way. — Justin Young