Grimassen Skitzieren Quotes & Sayings

There's something presumptuous in writing an autobiography, as if people's interest in your life is a given. — Simon Pegg

The very insurmountability of the task, its very unattractiveness, was in the end what attracted me to it. — Lionel Shriver

By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher. — Christian Nestell Bovee

There are as many reasons why and ways to fish as there are people who do it. — Russell Chatham

Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is! How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as 'facts.' Yes, I know that in this case one 'fact' was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a 'fact,' and act on it as if it were true. — Aidan Chambers

You have to believe in life before you can accomplish anything. — Jack Kerouac

What a fool she was ever to have imagined that there might be some place in the world where she could sink to the earth with the knowledge that there were people round her who understood, who perhaps even admired and loved her! She was fated to carry loneliness about with her as a leper carries his scabs. 'No one can do anything for me: no one can do anything against me. — Francois Mauriac

Be like a tree in pursuit of your cause. Stand firm, grip hard, thrust upward. Bend to the winds of heaven. And learn tranquility. — Richard St. Barbe Baker

Human life moves only in one direction - toward disease, damage, and death. The best you can hope for is to remain stagnant or, in certain cases, return to a previous condition when things weren't as bad as they've become for you. — Thomas Ligotti

She'd wanted to love her so desperately that she'd mistaken the need for her as love in itself. — Natasha West