Elmarada Quotes & Sayings

Gaining satisfaction through accomplishments is and will always be a slippery slope, because there will come a time when you realize you have accomplished all that is within your power to accomplish in the realm of good, and will have nowhere else to turn but to the realms of greed and powerlust to find the satisfaction you crave. — A.J. Darkholme

Your love to me was like an unread book. — Countee Cullen

Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded, that the evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come, I have used my best endeavors to keep our country uncommitted in the troubles which afflict Europe, and which assail us on every side. — Thomas Jefferson

Zombies are far better than religious people, because they do not discriminate in killing. — M.F. Moonzajer

Sometimes it's not catastrophic. Sometimes you only come to the bottom of your coffee cup. Sometimes you have a good day. No one wants to know. No one wants to tell you about theirs either. You might somehow take it. Turn it against them. See the flaw. You always tell them the whole thing sucks. It keeps you alive. They figure if you're out there having a rotten time, everything's fine and you're doing your part. No one will ever try to take your bad times away from you but they'll come swarming for your happiness. — Henry Rollins

While Julia's down in Long Branch looking after Molly, you're supposed to — John Jakes

Even stopped clocks are right twice a day. — Paulo Coelho

Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said.
Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly. — Milan Kundera

No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of Adolf Hitler. The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it. — William L. Shirer

No matter how many times we read "King Lear," never shall we find the good king banging his tankard in high revelry, all woes forgotten, at a jolly reunion with all three daughters and their lapdogs. Never will Emma rally, revived by the sympathetic salts in Flaubert's father's timely tear. Whatever evolution this or that popular character has gone through between the book covers, his fate is fixed in our minds ... — Vladimir Nabokov

Maybe it's not about being worthy, or what you have to offer. If it was, wouldn't everyone be turned away?" -Niall — Brittany L. Engels

I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread. — J.R.R. Tolkien