Jl Beers Quotes & Sayings

All dramatic realism is somewhat sadistic; an audience is persuaded to watch something that makes it uncomfortable and from which no relief is offered - no laughter, no tears, no purgation. — Mary McCarthy

Slowed down by a sense of hopelessness in all his decisions and movements, he suffered from bitter sadness, and his incapacity solidified into a pain that often sat like a nosebleed behind his forehead the moment he tried to make up his mind to do something. — Robert Musil

They finished laughing and caught their breaths, and looked at each other, and Ani thought Geric looked at her too long, as though he forgot he was looking, as though he did not wish to do anything else. She looked back. Her took heart took its time quieting down. — Shannon Hale

Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If we take anything with us into the next world, it is not what survives in the memories of our relicts. — Anthony Burgess

I remain thankful to God for all his mercies. — David Mitchell

Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills. — Florence Scovel Shinn

I breathed in, he breathed out. We traded actual air. — Alice Clayton

I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record. — Courtney Love

One's sanctions for truth and goodness are established largely by individual preferences. — Ken Wilber

this before when they'd been together — Iris Johansen

I didn't go in there and tell them I think you should move me, but I also understand the nature of this business. — Antonio Davis