Emmeline Hooks Quotes & Sayings

He had given himself over to endless wanderings, a life of migration from life-to-life, albeit not necessarily a set of migrations one must view as physical, but rather a set of migrations between circumstances, a set of migrations where the players surrounding him were just as likely to move as he, but nonetheless, a set of migrations calling forth a life unalterable only by its lack of permanence. Along with this came the slow, but dawning realization that he had relinquished his claim over those new memories he could have created alongside the friends and relatives closest to him; and that he had, furthermore, ceased to exist in such people's minds, except as a faint and indistinct silhouette of what he had once been, situated seamlessly against the vivid and oddly memorable backdrops of spaces and moments which shall never be again. — Ashim Shanker

It is the stillest words which bring the storm. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it. — Clive Bell

Little about your work, tease and titillate with alluring, even contradictory comments, then stand back and let others try to make sense of it all. — Robert Greene

Some of the best stories start out with a person who absolutely does not want anything to do with an adventure. — Josh Rose

Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains ... But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree ... when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself. — Marcus Aurelius