Kaeppelin Quotes & Sayings

How difficult it is for those of us preoccupied with the humdrum concerns of adulthood to recall how forcefully we were once buffeted by the passions and longings of youth ... 'The older person does not realize the soul-flights of the adolescent ... ' (pg. 185) — Jon Krakauer

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others. — Susan Sontag

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural. — Amelia Barr

Sometimes you need to be awkward to beat awkwardness — Charlie Flynn

Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a violin lying ready at his hand! How I should have slipped up to him in his quiet hour, noiselessly climbing the winding stair to take him by surprise, and then with talk and music we should have held heavenly festival throughout the night! — Hermann Hesse

I can't worry about the consequences of what I do; that's not my job. — Peter Landesman

I couldn't bear to think about the proper future, so I just tried to make things better for the next twenty minutes or so, over and over again. — Nick Hornby

There are times when silence is better than any other words in the dictionary... — Francis Chalifour