Irrecuperable Quotes & Sayings

The great thing about books was the solidity of the written word. You might change and your reading might change as a result, but the book remained whatever it had always been. A good book was surprising the first time through, less so the second. — Karen Joy Fowler

A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in general, is what shows us at our most human. — Shane Warren Jones

How do you learn to write? You sit your ass down in a chair, in front of a laptop, for ten years. Period. — Sean Beaudoin

Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just as the art of healing could only flourish when the belief in miracle cures ceased. — Friedrich Nietzsche

God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name. — David Platt

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country. — Don Marquis

And in this it is right, for the meaning of any beautiful created thing is, at least, as much in the soul of him who looks at it as it was in his soul who wrought it. Nay, it is rather the beholder who lends to the beautiful thing its myriad meanings, and makes it marvellous for us, and sets it in some new relation to the age, so that it becomes a vital portion of our lives and a symbol of what we pray for, or perhaps of what, having prayed for, we fear that we may receive. — Oscar Wilde

I waste so much time sleeping. And time is of all losses the most irrecuperable, for it can never be redeemed. — Alison Weir