Henry Brooks Adam Quotes & Sayings

We dare not forget, lest we become a nation that does not only not know its roots but where it's going — Mzwakhe Mbuli

Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all - self-centeredness in its purest form. — Rick Yancey

Though you outlive as many generations as you will,
Nevertheless, Eternal Death is waiting for you still.
It is no shorter, that eternity that lies in store
For the man who with the setting sun today will rise no more,
Than for the man whose sun has set months, even years, before. — Titus Lucretius Carus

Skinnider spent seven weeks in hospital and was incredulous that the leaders of the rising were executed. "We had obeyed all rules of war and surrendered as formally as any army ever capitulated. — Margaret Skinnider

It's a queer sensation, this secret belief that one stands on the brink of the world's greatest catastrophe. For it means the fall of Western Europe, as it fell in the fourth century. It recurs to me every November, and culminates every December. I have to get over it as I can, and hide, for fear of being sent to an asylum. — Henry Adams

I find I don't learn a lot while talking — Louis Mario N. Lipp

Once you realize that it is impossible to capture the character of the various manifestations of nature by pictorial means, and that an interpretation based on imagination is equally erroneous, you will not find yourself facing a gaping void as you might have feared. — Frantisek Kupka

Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow. — Bob Saget

Humans are dreaming all the time. — Miguel Ruiz