Ilrlr Quotes & Sayings

In one sheet of paper, we see everything else, the cloud, the forest, the logger. I am, therefore you are. You are, therefore I am. That is the meaning of the word "interbeing." We interare. — Nhat Hanh

Judge, then, to what pitches of inflamed, distracted fury the minds of his more desperate hunters were impelled, when amid the chips of chewed boats, and the sinking limbs of torn comrades, they swam out of the white curds of the whale's direful wrath into the serene, exasperating sunlight, that smiled on, as if at a birth or a bridal. — Herman Melville

I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds. — David Levithan

Unhappiness on earth cultivates a hunger for heaven. By gracing us with a deep dissatisfaction, God holds our attention. — Max Lucado

-I'm reviewing it, the stooped man said, and started to plod off.
-You read it?
-No, he said over his shoulder, -but I know the son of a bitch who wrote it. — William Gaddis

Deep roots are not reached by the frost. — J.R.R. Tolkien

My words did not seem to reach her. Or, if they did, she was unable to grasp their meaning. — Haruki Murakami

When we lay together, she showed me her soul, and I showed her mine, and they were the same. As you can imagine, mine was battered and bruised, tarnished like ancient metal. She scrubbed it clean. I cannot deny my own soul any more than I can deny she held it in her hands for a time. — Carol Oates

XXVIII "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a rock, a mighty fortress; "Often have I been to it, "Even to its highest tower, "From whence the world looks black." "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a breath, a wind, "A shadow, a phantom; "Long have I pursued it, "But never have I touched "The hem of its garment." And I believed the second traveller; For truth was to me A breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom, And never had I touched The hem of its garment. — Stephen Crane

I do not permit blasphemy, the F-word, or obscenities such as soy milk at my table. Consider yourself chastised. — Dean Koontz

People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

In English we blame others for not understanding us when really it's our fault for not saying what we wanted to say. — Rory Dunlop

Art, n. This word has no definition. — Ambrose Bierce

Giving saves lives. Especially the giver's. — Shannon Kopp