Gulong Quotes & Sayings

Many men have a secret monster this way, a disease that they feed, a dragon that gnaws them, a despair that inhabits their night. Such a man seems like others, quite normal. Nobody knows that he has within him a fearful parasitic pain, with a thousand teeth, which lives in the miserable man, who is dying of it. Nobody knows that this man is a gulf. It is stagnant, but deep. From time to time a turmoil, of which we understand nothing, shows up on its surface. A mysterious wrinkle comes along, then vanishes, then reappears; an air bubble rises and bursts. It is a little thing, it is terrible. It is the breathing of the unknown monster. — Victor Hugo

You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered. — D.H. Lawrence

I closed my eyes," he repeated after a few shallow breahts, "and imagined she was you. — Aprilynne Pike

Praying is not about asking; it's about listening ...
It is just opening your eyes to see what was there all along. — Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

I was brought up to be a good boy and proud of myself so I suppress all the things about me that are bad. — Rik Mayall

If a shepherd errs, he must be isolated from other shepherds, but woe unto us if the sheep begin to distrust shepherds. — Umberto Eco

My hope is that literature can replace religion as the source of our ethics, without ceasing to be a pleasurable study and pursuit in its own right — Christopher Hitchens