Nishitani Quotes & Sayings

Here and there, alone, reflecting, I'd bump up against what felt like a buffer zone between me and some vast reserve of grief, but its reinforcements were sturdy enough and its construction solid enough to prevent me from really ever smelling its air, feeling its wind on my face. — John Darnielle

As the old year retires and a new one is born, we commit into the hands of our Creator the happenings of the past year and ask for direction and guidance in the new one. May He grant us His grace, His tranquility and His wisdom! — Peggy Toney Horton

I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi. — Carl Van Vechten

Is there life in other families? — Ashleigh Brilliant

I came because as soon as we figured out where you might be, nothing would've kept me from finding you. Nothing. — Lara Adrian

Sometimes being an artist is a real drag. It can be incredibly bureaucratic. — Micah Lexier

A new novel awaits my arrival, prepares for my careful inspection. Yet a novel is always a long dream that lives in me for years before I know where to go to hunt it out. — Pat Conroy

People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others. — Robert Jensen

If she[ ... ] had known how much her first half-inch beginning to let go would take - and how long her noticing and renouncing owning and her turning her habits, and beginning the slimmest self-mastery whose end was nowhere in sight - would she have begun? — Annie Dillard

It was a lot easier to be optimistic about equality when you didn't have to confront the Neanderthals on a daily basis. When you could imagine that people were actually changing their minds because they'd stopped groping secretaries at the photocopier. — Val McDermid

On an emotional level, success in America would be terrible for me; it would be insane. I really, seriously, never want to be famous here. — Robbie Williams

I don't know what I believe anymore. If God does exist, then He's just an asshole, creating this world full of human suffering and letting all these terrible things happen to good people, and sitting there and doing nothing about it. At June's memorial service, a few people came up to me and said some really stupid things, like how everything happens for a reason, and God never gives us more than we can handle. All I could think was, does that mean if I was a weaker person, this never would've happened? Am I seriously supposed to buy that June's death was part of some stupid divine plan? I don't believe that. I can't. It just doesn't make sense. — Hannah Harrington

Yes, he was that good looking. Take-your-breath-away good looking. Want-to-strip-your-body-naked-and-let-him-devour-you-alive good looking. Certified-eye-candy good looking. — Gail McHugh

I cry for those not yet dead. — Frank Herbert