Orpheus 1950 Quotes & Sayings

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

But we'll stumble on, she and I, into our messy future. And we'll have each other — Sophie Hannah

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves. — William Hazlitt

In New York, all the crews read 'The New Yorker.' In Los Angeles, they don't know from 'The New Yorker.' — Bruce Eric Kaplan

It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth. — Philippe Aries

You know it with startling clarity in that moment - how there's only a singular cord in this knotted mess of a world worth reaching for. It's dangling right there from our impossible tangle, and it's the one hope you need to reach for this Advent. That scarlet lifeline of Christ. — Ann Voskamp

Neither the dissipations of the past
and she had lived very much in the world, nor the restrictions of the present; neither sickness nor sorrow seemed to have closed her heart or ruined her spirits. — Jane Austen