Oldish Dell Quotes & Sayings

In these explanations it is presumed that an experiencing subject is one occasion of a sensitive reaction to an actual world.'

the rain falls
that had not been falling
and it is the same world — George Oppen

The best advice I got from my dad? Wear a condom. — Richard Branson

If they aren't asking for information, what are they asking for? They are saying they are stuck and can't gather enough traction to get unstuck. They are saying that they are not able to choose because they lack the wherewithal to take action. They need a charge, a spark, an incentive, and they need it from within themselves. A well-placed why provides this spark. Not — G. Scott Graham

I need to have all of you, Ava. Say I can have all of you."
...
"Take me." I say quietly against his lips.'
"Oh, I will. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

The pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most most of all. — Sophocles

My heart keeps begging me for a reason to keep beating, but I'm running out of lies to tell it — Stephanie Ware

There is a difference between dramatizing your sensibility and your personality. The literary works which we think of as classicsdid the former. Much modern writing does the latter, and so has an affinity with, say, night-club acts in all their shoddy immediacy. — Paul Horgan

It is all one to me where I begin;
for I shall come back again there. — Parmenides

I will do my best to dodge tonight's depression
Hide in sleep
Damage myself in dreams
Wake up older, slightly more used. — Henry Rollins

A meal was no more than a fragile defense against the inevitability of the next meal. Food itself could never answer the question of food; it only delayed the moment when the question would have to be asked in earnest. — Paul Auster

Her lips was hot, like the ridge of a cooking dish. — Esi Edugyan