Illuminos Quotes & Sayings

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior. — Harry Allen Overstreet

You could have had this instead. But going back is false. Moving ahead is false. Looking the other way is false. Trying to redress all that is false turns out to be just as false. — Andre Aciman

You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You're at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you're staring at a screen, — Dave Eggers

In speech he stretched out his vowel sounds to give his mouth a rest before the next consonant. — Diane Setterfield

Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves. — Emile M. Cioran

Fresh spring the herald of love's mighty king. — Edmund Spenser

I'm so convinced that hiking helps my writing that I recently decided to offer a series of hiking-writing workshops to see if others had the same experience. — Kate Klise

history is neither for excuses nor for revenge 1. — Shashi Tharoor

When God gives you an inch, don't take a mile. — Giovannino Guareschi

No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin; he does not say, 'You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.' He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right. — Bertrand Russell

Time is precious and should be spent doing things that make you happy, not brushing those very moments aside. That's when you really die, and I plan on living. — Katelin LaMontagne

It was like ... like wizardry, but without the wizards and the mess. — Terry Pratchett

I can function without you. But I don't like being away from you. It feels like you take my home with you when you go. — Christina Lauren