Quotes & Sayings About Missing Your Mother Who Has Passed Away

The distinctions of personal merit and influence, so conspicuous in a republic, so feeble and obscure under a monarchy, were abolished by the despotism of the emperors; who substituted in their room a severe subordination of rank and office, from the titled slaves who were seated on the steps of the throne, to the meanest instruments of arbitrary power. — Edward Gibbon

I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write. — Chuck Palahniuk

The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency. — Baruch Spinoza

Connection is the triumphal cry these days. Connection has made people arrogant, impatient, hasty, and presumptuous ... I don't doubt that instant communication has been good for business, even for the publishing business, but it has done nothing for literature, and might even have harmed it. In many ways connection has been disastrous. We have confused information (of which there is too much) with ideas (of which there are too few). I found out much more about the world and myself by being unconnected. — Paul Theroux

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. — Sydney Smith

I never see a sign Licensed to sell spirits without thinking that it is a license to ruin souls. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins. — Honore De Balzac

Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, — T. S. Eliot

Here's my goal: I want to make a seriously dark show, and not on a network that has ever done that. — Maggie Q