Nyght School Quotes & Sayings

Three old women were bending in the fields. What use is it to question us? they said. Well it shortly became clear that they knew everything there is to know about the snowy fields and the blue green shoots and the plant called "audacity", which poets mistake for violets. I began to copy out everything that was said ... I will do anything to escape boredom. It is the task of a lifetime. You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough. — Anne Carson

Hatred always leaves a stain on the veil. But sometimes the hatred isn't your own. Sometimes you're chained, and the hatred beaten into you is another man's, grown in a different heart, and it takes longer than a fading bruise to forget. — Gregory David Roberts

The "what ifs" and "should haves" will eat your brain. — John O' Callaghan

Accept yourself. You are wonderfully made. You are a priceless jewel and you are amazing, just as you are. — Ruby Mabry

In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all. — Brother Lawrence

I don't know if Oron has the power to control us, but if he does, he chooses not to. He gives humans their own free will ... and maybe that's why we are once again facing the darkness. — Melissa Pearl

An affection that was calculated was never trustworthy. — John Irving

There's something magical about a mask, but I have never worn one - I want you to see my pain and know how your love affects me ... — John Geddes

Truly, you understand the reverse art of alchemy, the depreciating of the most valuable things! Try, just for once, another recipe, in order not to realise as hitherto the opposite of what you mean to attain: deny those good things, withdraw from them the applause of the populace and discourage the spread of them, make them once more the concealed chastities of solitary souls, and say: morality is something forbidden! Perhaps you will thus attract to your cause the sort of men who are only of any account, I mean the heroic. But then there must be something formidable in it, and not as hitherto something disgusting! — Friedrich Nietzsche

If your why is strong enough you will figure out how! — Bill Walsh

Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live." — Edward Young

Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired. — Robert Strauss

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd. — China Mieville