Omori Basil Quotes & Sayings

The most beautiful pieces of art come from the ugliest situations. — Andy Mineo

Perhaps the strangest thing about this illusion of control is not that it happens but that it seems to confer many of the psychological benefits of genuine control. In fact, the one group of people who seem generally immune to this illusion are the clinically depressed, who tend to estimate accurately the degree to which they can control events in most situation. — Daniel M. Gilbert

by repeated, simulated visual enactment, — Anonymous

The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Eternity is not a super-abundance of time, but timelessness. — Vijay Balakrishnan

At ten years old, Jared was my friend. At fourteen, my enemy; at eighteen, my lover; and at twenty, my heartbreak. I'd known him more than half my life, and although the roles had changed, his impact was always all consuming.
Always. — Penelope Douglas

A man from the Land of Fools wanted to pull down the clouds.
'Why?' someone asked him.
'To squeeze out the rain. — Idries Shah

Gospel repentance is not a little hanging down of the head. It's a working of the heart until your sin becomes more odious to you than any punishment for it. — Richard Sibbes

It is not so much your hostility that injures us; it is rather the case that, if we were on friendly terms with you, our subjects would regard that as a sign of weakness in us, whereas your hatred is evidence of our power. — Thucydides

Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? — Susanna Kaysen

He was indulgent toward the open spaces of other men's futures, but he was impatient with the shuttered quarters of their pasts. — Eleanor Catton