Ideenreise Quotes & Sayings

After years of sleeping together, I still love to stay up late
after you've passed into sleep
so I can hear you say things
you would never repeat
when awake.
It's like loving two people, each
distinct and beautiful, as night from day
as you from me, all of us together forming
a continuous grace. — Sherman Alexie

I have friends who wear Star Wars costumes and act like the characters all day. I may not be that deep into it, but there's something great about loving what you love and not caring if it's unpopular. — Kristen Bell

I need everyone to love me. My feelings of inadequacy and lack of parental attachment have made me one of those sick bitches who can't tolerate being ignored. My parents say all the right things when they are pretending to listen to me. But the truth is, they are more like cats. They accidentally had a litter of kittens, and then emotionally moved on to whatever ball of yarn rolled past their line of sight. When self-obsessed people breed, they make empty people like me who spend the rest of their time on earth trying to gain the love and approval they didn't get as children. This doesn't excuse my behavior. It's just to say, if my parents had actually noticed me, I probably wouldn't care so much about whether everyone else on the planet adored me. Unfortunately, I'm a bottomless pit of need. — Jenny Mollen

Our general repression of matters disgusting prevents us facing up to a serious health problem. If we are the 'god that shits,' then we are in full flight from ourselves. I even wonder whether religion itself and the whole idea of a god is produced by our self-disgust. — Colin McGinn

You are taking things far too literally. Everything you see is merely a symbol for things you do not see. Most of the people of this world are asleep in their minds. — Seth Adam Smith

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian. — Linda McCartney

One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy. — Friedrich Nietzsche

At times like that it's difficult to remember what's at stake, that history is in the making. As a player you feel so cut off sometimes, it can be tough ... Which is why it is an enormous advantage to play at home. — Michel Patini

It is very hard for a man, however modest, to grasp the possibility that a woman who has once loved him may love him no longer ... — W. Somerset Maugham

He'd had to watch a video on YouTube to figure out how to tie the damn thing - which he was never telling anyone, ever. Except maybe Lane.
Lane would either know how to tie a perfect Windsor knot or would own a clip-on tie. The thought made Jared smile. But he also mentally told himself to find out which it was. He couldn't let Lane go to a similar meeting in a clip-on tie. — Avon Gale

The being called God ... bears every mark of a veil woven by philosophical conceit, to hide the ignorance of philosophers even from themselves. They borrow the threads of its texture from the anthropomorphism of the vulgar. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I never had, like, a nanny that took care of me. My mom always fed me breakfast, lunch, and dinner. — Miley Cyrus

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools. — Wilkie Collins

Human evil is a collapse of the moral faculty, but not an operating pursuing of the wrong. — Arvin Adriyan

The vast majority is sociologically intellectual and respectful but realistically idiotic and despicable. — Daniel Marques