Ilja Richter Quotes & Sayings

History is a vast early warning system. — Norman Cousins

I shivered from the holy shit fuck of it all — Mercy Celeste

God spared not the angels that sinned,
But cast them down to hell,
And delivered then into chains of darkness
To be preserved unto judgment.. — Becca Fitzpatrick

Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway. — J.R.R. Tolkien

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats. — Yancy Butler

Somehow, when you're knocked senseless, the pain doesn't show up till later. Then it's a cold, heartless bitch. — Darynda Jones

It was a backward memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline). This — Terry Pratchett

No one is as smart as all of us. -Seth Godin, author/entrepreneur — Jason Fried

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it. — Edward Norton

Options - the ability to choose - is real power. This book is all about how to see and create those options with the least effort and cost. It just so happens, paradoxically, that you can make more money - a lot more money - by doing half of what you are doing now. — Timothy Ferriss

If you find that the reader of popular romances
however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances
goes back to his old favourites again and again, then you have pretty good evidence that they are to him a sort of poetry. — C.S. Lewis

Magnificent, magnificent desolation. — Johan Harstad

When my mind is clear, I feel like I can give more of myself to those around me and hopefully bring light and joy and an infectious kind of energy to inspire them to do whatever they want to do. That's really the key behind it all. — Julianne Hough

Prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them ... without their being asked if they would care for it. Those who are in great distress want no food, but if it is handed to them, they will mechanically take it ' ... There was something arresting about the matter-of-fact wisdom here, the instinctive understanding of the physiological disruptions ... I will not forget the instinctive wisdom of the friend who, every day for those first few weeks, brought me a quart container of scallion-and-ginger congee from Chinatown. Congee I could eat. Congee was all I could eat. — Joan Didion