Ilkelerle Quotes & Sayings

Where was it that I read about a man condemned to death saying or thinking, an hour before his death, that if he had to live somewhere high up on a cliffside, on a ledge so narrow that there was room only for his two feet - and with the abyss, the ocean, eternal darkness, eternal solitude, eternal storm all around him - and had to stay like that, on a square foot of space, an entire lifetime, a thousand years, an eternity - it would be better to live so than die right now! Only to live, to live, to live! To live, no matter how - only to live! ... How true! Lord, how true! Man is a scoundrel! And he's a scoundrel who calls him a scoundrel for that. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Keep your goals in front of you, and your fears behind you. — Tony Robbins

Memories are not the truth of the past. We sculpt them to suit our images of our present selves. And, in any case, the truth of then is not the truth of now. — Ian C. Esslemont

Fall makes me think that if I fail horribly at this art thing, and then fail horribly with this writing thing, I'll go run a pumpkin patch. — Tyler Hojberg

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder. — Edvard Munch

In all ages of the world this eminently plausible fiction has lured the obtuse infant to financial ruin and disaster. — Mark Twain

Give me the biblical Christ or give me nothing. — R.C. Sproul

They've poisoned you with this 'love is patient, love is kind' bullshit since you were a kid. But love is scientific, man. I mean, it's really just a chemical reaction in the brain. Sometimes that reaction lasts a lifetime, repeating itself over and over again. And sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it goes supernova and then starts to fade. We're all just chemical hearts. Does that make love any less brilliant? I don't think so. — Krystal Sutherland

When you practice Transcendental Meditation you are given a key to the deepest level of life. — David Lynch

It would be merciful for people not to come calling and disturb the loneliness of the mountains to which I have returned from the sorrows of the world. — Muso Soseki