Indiana University Bloomington Quotes & Sayings

You never really feel somebody's suffering. You only feel their death. — Art Carney

Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties
one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so many are failures. They leave out the person to whom things happened. The reason is that it is so difficult to describe any human being. So they say: 'This is what happened'; but they do not say what the person was like to whom it happened. And the events mean very little unless we know first to whom they happened. — Virginia Woolf

This is Golgotha: people tend to end up dead in these here parts; it's kind of a town tradition. — R.S. Belcher

In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away. — Yosa Buson

I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do. — Andrew Lloyd Webber

Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos. — H.P. Lovecraft

You can learn about how people think by playing with their lives, but that's inhumane. — Yoon Ha Lee

How imperceptibly the first springing takes place! — Henry David Thoreau

expresses how the Creator solves the problems he needs to solve in order to bring creation out of chaos. Therefore, we have every reason to suppose that the succession of days was not meant to refer to a chronological succession but to a logical, thematic, and literary succession. In — Gregory A. Boyd

When I meet a girl I like, I call her the next day. I don't play that three-day rule. Maybe that's psycho. But I usually feel like I should have called her that night! — Daren Kagasoff

Most people see what is, and never see what can be. — Albert Einstein

Taking faith seriously leads to the utility of altruistic behavior. — Ted Malloch

Let inspiration guide your actions. — Ana Ortega