Evocative Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance. — Jarvis Cocker

The Shadow. It cannot be grasped. Chase your shadow and it will, flee; turn your back on it and it will follow you. It is also a person's dark side, the thing that makes them mysterious. After they have given us pleasure, the shadow of their withdrawal makes us yearn for their return, much as clouds make us yearn for the sun. — Robert Greene

Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: 'the Son, O how unlike the Father!' First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it. — William Blake

What good are thoughts and emotions-in fact all of our experiences-if not to increase our realization? — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

Between Sylvia and me there existed as between my own mother and me - a sort of psychic osmosis which, at times, was very wonderful and comforting; at other times an unwelcome invasion of privacy (words from Aurelia Plath from the Introduction) — Sylvia Plath

Sentence first; verdict afterwards. -Queen of Hearts — Lewis Carroll

The mule," he was fond of saying, "is as much smarter than a horse as a raven is smarter than a falcon. Neither a raven nor a mule will go charging into combat just because some human tells him to. — Randall Garrett

It is not your fate that is your verdict, but how you deal with your fate. If you find yourself in a story contrary to every vow you have made or wish to make, then you must silence your mind and observe everything closely. You must see the patterns of possible fates in the world around you and choose that which your holy soul tells you to choose." - Thordis, Thunder priestess — Maria Kvilhaug

I just love that feeling when things are about to change. Like when you know that in a few seconds you're going to do something and become someone else. — Mindi Scott

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile;
Filths savour but themselves ... — William Shakespeare

Nothing we do makes us real. That which is real makes us do. — T.F. Hodge

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

You two have sex every time you look at each other; sleeping together is just a formality you haven't gotten around to yet. — P.J. Tracy