Naslibs Quotes & Sayings

In everyone there is some willingness to merge with the anonymous crowd and to flow comfortably along with it down the river of pseudo-life. This is much more than a simple conflict between two identities. It is something far worse: it is a challenge to the very notion of identity itself. — Vaclav Havel

Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival, — Ari Whitten

We cannot always analyse intimacy; but there is no mistaking it: we know the person quite differently. You do not learn intimacy, or reap the fruit of someone else's. You grow into it. In the Gospels one really can grow into this intimacy with Our Lord, precisely because the evangelists do not obtrude their own personalities. Anyhow, know Him we must. — Frank Sheed

I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you like to call it, of the greater non-self. — Aldous Huxley

Every action is something temporary that gets carved into something permanent. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.') — Thomas A Kempis

It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is: kill her. — Leslie Morgan Steiner

Master, the paintings, the paintings in the storage rooms!" I cried.
"Forget the paintings. It's too late. Boys, run from here, get out now, save yourselves from the fire."
Knocking the attackers back, he shot up the stairwell and called down to me from the uppermost railing. "Come, Amadeo, fight them off, believe in your strength, child, fight. — Anne Rice

I'm really tough. It's a state of mind. — Brandi Carlile

Riding back from the grocery store, I realized my father was two men - one he presented to the outside world, and one, far darker, that was always there, behind the face everybody else saw. In my bedroom late that — Augusten Burroughs

It is too late if we wait until the moment of temptation before making our decision. — Nathan Eldon Tanner

I know what it's like to have a young child at the weekend and feel like there is nothing to see in the movie theatre. Family is so important. — Teri Hatcher

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible. — Cesare Pavese