Gretchens Quotes & Sayings

You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That'€s the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world. — Octave Mirbeau

Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness. — Sophocles

I like things simple. — Valentino Garavani

Wisdom is divine. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave. — Frances Wright

The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both.
[The best remedy against an ill man is much ground between both.] — George Herbert

Recognition lies in our natural desires — Sunday Adelaja

I can do it, Max. I still have my thoughts. I just can't say them out loud. I still have my friends. I just can't show them. I still have all the things that used to matter. They're inside of me. They can't take that away. — Catherine Austen

There is never any certainty of the unseen. We hope. That's what we do as Christians, and that's what I do with unicorns. Maybe like C. S. Lewis's jewel, that glimpse of a unicorn I sometimes see is a glimpse of Jesus. — Colleen Coble

You know what happens to girls who loves lost boys? They become lost themselves. — David Levithan

I want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with. — Joel Stein