Edgar Allen Poe Strangeness Quotes & Sayings

When we're passionate about something, we have a positive attitude and embrace each day with a new outlook. — Deepak Chopra

A boy is in the parlour what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, he tries and sentences them on their merits, in the swift, summary way of boys, as good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests: he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat, he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account. There is no Lethe for this. Ah, that he could pass again into his neutrality! Who can thus avoid all pledges, and having observed, observe again from the same unaffected, unbiased, unbribable, unaffrighted innocence, must always be formidable. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Christ asks for a home in your soul, where he can be at rest with you, where he can talk easily to you, where you and he, alone together, can laugh and be silent and be delighted with one another. — Caryll Houselander

We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice. — Jules Renard

I didn't want my music to be confused - even though I was and had a lot of questions. I wanted my music to capture a period in my life where I was sure. — Dom Kennedy

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death. — Simone De Beauvoir

For the time being, the entire earth and the boundless sky. — Ruth Ozeki

And Helvetica maybe says everything, and that's perhaps part of its appeal. — Jonathan Hoefler

A douche of spray blinded my brother for a moment. — H.G.Wells