Maelstroms Quotes & Sayings

When it's time to confess, you don't know what you're saying. Are you telling the truth, or do you confuse your lies with reality? The question is comical. The answer is lost in the maelstroms of consciousness. It's even impossible to pretend, eventually, that the question wasn't asked. You've been kidding yourself about yourself for so long, you're someone else. Your you is just a fragile fabrication. Every morning, you have to wake up, assemble this busy, dissembling monster, and get him or her on his or her feet again for another round of fantasy. — David Guterson

Follow your heart, there lies your happiness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A five-year-old Chinese girl knows more about football than I do. — Frank Langella

The trouble with good manners is that people are persuaded that you are all right, require no protection, are perfectly capable of looking after yourself. — Anita Brookner

Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist. — Edward Dmytryk

Five wild Event Maelstroms swirled in vicious storms of unreason and spewed up a pavement. — Douglas Adams

While Sex without love is shallow, it's so profoundly uncomplicated — Josh Stern

...the mind is just as immeasurable as the vast universe. An integral being settles his mind just as the vast universe settles itself. He unites his mind with the unnameable Subtle Origin of the multi-universe in which there is no past, present or future. This is how an integral being deals with his mind. — Lao-Tzu

From my point of view, humanity is one living being. Male-female - we complement each other in a sacred communion. But once again, respect is the key. Respect is what makes the sacred communion possible. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

We're all ridiculous ... all of us. It's as though we use a lit torch to search for light. You are enough. Know this and proceed through life accordingly. — Steve Maraboli

What kind of life am i supposed to have without you?You were the one good thing,the only good thing i ever found. — Claudia Gray

Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected. — Swami Vivekananda

Indecision and fear can cripple any chances of succeeding and lead to maelstroms of regret that fuel our most fantastic nightmares. — Kilroy J. Oldster

I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I detest because it distresses me greatly, for it forces on me clothes that are not mine, which in fact belong to a human type that I distrust; the prophet, the soothsayer, the seer. I am none of these; I'm a normal man with a good memory who fell into a maelstrom and got out of it more by luck than by virtue, and who from that time on has preserved a certain curiosity about maelstroms large and small, metaphorical and actual. — Primo Levi

Life itself is a sea full of reefs and maelstroms that a human being takes the greatest care and caution to avoid; he uses all his efforts and ingenuity to wend his way through, while knowing that even if he is successful, every step brings him closer to the greatest, the total, the inescapable and irreparable shipwreck, and in fact steers him right up to it, - to death: this is the final goal of the miserable journey and worse for him that all the reefs he managed to avoid. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Members of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

He walked until his heart was as dreary as the sky, until some sort of truth came to him. — Eloisa James

Nothing is impossible. The word actually says it itself: "I'm possible!"
--Sherill Harvey (from Pinterest) — E.Michael Helms

If you're preaching, I've already got religion. And if you're selling, I ain't buying--unless you've got binoculars. I could use some new binoculars. — Laura Bradford

There can be nothing more frightening in a gigantic monster of many tentacles than intelligence. — A.E. Marling

He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life, it seemed, must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest, no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream, no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed, without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret. — F Scott Fitzgerald