Hillsbery Elegy Quotes & Sayings

I have heard from my father and mother all the answers that faith in God could offer to those who doubt and search for the truth. In our home and in many other homes the eternal questions were more actual than the latest news in the Yiddish newspaper. In spite of all the disenchantments and all my skepticism I believe that the nations can learn much from those Jews, their way of thinking, their way of bringing up children, their finding happiness where others see nothing but misery and humiliation. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

I always wanted to make an abstract photograph. I would photograph walls, sports interiors, marks on the walls people made. Even looking back it makes so much sense. It's like it was a fight against the photograph. — Idris Khan

Been waitin' years for this, baby. Thanks for makin' it worth the wait."
"You're still bein' awesome," I informed him.
"Yeah, and it's cute as fuck that annoys you. — Kristen Ashley

Would being completely alone in a universe bring a sensation of closing limitations or infinitely expanding horizons with associated loneliness? — Peter F. Hamilton

Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Submissives are not greedy, she reminded herself, even if they secretly want to be. — Red Phoenix

Well ... "why" is a hard question to answer in any language. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I don't feel everybody can connect to. — John Darnielle

It is the historian's function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever. — Jacob Burckhardt