Herzeleid Quotes & Sayings

What I'm most interested in is not necessarily the wound, but the scar. Not how someone is wounded, but what the scar does later. — Daniel Alarcon

We are taught that God made our planet in six days.

Some know of an ancient story which tells that although He was well pleased with His work, God decided His world needed a special touch of magic.

So, on the seventh day, God created Scotland.

Cathy M. Donnelly — Cathy M. Donnelly

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. — Marilynne Robinson

And of course anyone who could see him here now, with his fever and his sleeping bags, his eyephones and his cellular data port and his bottle of cooling piss, would think he was crazy too. But he isn't. He knows he isn't, in spite of everything. He has the syndrome now, the thing that came after every test subject from that Gainesville orphanage, but he isn't crazy. Just obsessed. And the obsession has its own shape in his head, its own texture, its own weight. He knows it from himself, can differentiate, so he goes back to it whenever he needs to and checks on it. Monitors it. Makes sure it still isn't him. It reminds him of having a sore tooth, or the way he felt once when he was in love and didn't want to be. How his tongue always found the tooth, or how he'd always find that ache, that absence in the shape of the beloved. But — William Gibson

We are called upon to obey and follow our Lord the Christ, but it is not because of any fear of Him or of the consequences if we did not follow; it is the love of Christ which constraineth us, as we are told in the Epistle for the first Sunday of Lend. It is because of our love and gratitude to Him that we must follow Him, that we must strain every nerve to make ourselves like Him. That is our reason
not fear but love. — Charles Webster Leadbeater

Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them. — Samuel West

It would be so much easier if I weren't determined to do what's best for everybody. Whoever said virtue was its own reward was full of crap. — Orson Scott Card

Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things. — Virgil

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. — Sarah Williams

So he whistles it off, and marches on — Charles Dickens

Magnus had been alive hundreds of years himself, and yet the simplest things could turn a day into a jewel, and a succession of days into a glittering chain that went on and on. Here was the simplest thing: a pretty girl liked him, and the day shone. — Cassandra Clare

Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move ... To halt under fire is folly. To halt under fire and not fire back is suicide. Officers must set the example — George S. Patton

Of course, one cannot get to know a country like the United States in short visits. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Why was the world so obsessed with sameness? — Tara Kelly

I guess fortunate that I'm still around and I emphasize I guess because you never can tell what musicians would be playing had they been around as long as I have. — Sonny Rollins