Matavan Quotes & Sayings

The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on. — Karl Kraus

Hopeless cases: Executives who assert themselves by saying No when they should say Yes. — Malcolm Forbes

Radio is the playground of coincidence. — Sarah Vowell

When I do my own wardrobe, I try to wear a designer from each of the countries I'm visiting: Tom Ford for New York, Hugo Boss for Germany, Burberry for England. — Douglas Booth

On one hand, you couldn't count on anything; on the other, on any given day, change was vanishingly unlikely. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Illness was a temporary respite, a release from the demands of an alienating world. — Lauren Slater

Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being , and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Every once in a while, the darkness was too much. It had been quite some time since I had woken up in the middle of the night and into an abyss of terror. But here I was ... I couldn't soothe myself ... But if that person had been accessible to me, I wouldn't have been in the state I was in to begin with. [pp. 195-196] — Dani Shapiro