Greenguard House Quotes & Sayings

PRAY; the word we use, when hope isn't enough. The word we use when faith is all that is left. — Gilbere Forte

They were tough and sour, but as Pushkin said, 'Dearer to us than a host of truths is an exalting illusion.' I saw a happy man, whose cherished dream had so obviously come true, who had attained his goal in life, had gotten what he wanted, who was content with his fate and with himself. For some reason there had always been something sad mixed with my thoughts about human happiness, but now, at the sight of a happy man, I was overcome by an oppressive feeling close to despair.
- Gooseberries — Anton Chekhov

What terrible harm Wagner did by interspersing his pages of genius with harmonic and modulatory outrages to which both young and old are gradually becoming accustomed and which have procreated d'Indy and Richard Strauss. — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors. — Charles Bukowski

It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept. — J.K. Rowling

Don't tell me where the years went; I don't want to know. — Marty Rubin