Oyarsa Quotes & Sayings

Survival is a two-way street. Once we settle ourselves off-world, we can blow up this planet from outer space. It's the only way to be sure its stench will not follow us. Let — Thomas Ligotti

Yesterday's poets are today's detectives. They spend a life sniffing out the hundredth line, wrapping up a case, and limping exhausted into the sunset. — Patti Smith

Yes,' said Oyarsa, 'but one thing we left behind us on the harandra: fear. And with fear, murder and rebellion. The weakest of my people does not fear death. It is the Bent One, the lord of your world, who wastes your lives and befouls them with flying from what you know will overtake you in the end. If you were subjects of Maleldil you would have peace.' Weston — C.S. Lewis

I am afraid of the lengths of time, Oyarsa...pg. 123 — C.S. Lewis

Each individual human being can claim the Spirit of Jesus as the guiding spirit of his or her life. In that Spirit we can speak and act freely and confidently with the knowledge that the same Spirit that inspired Jesus is inspiring us. — Henri Nouwen

So this purports to be a disease, alcoholism? A disease like a cold? Or like cancer? I have to tell you, I have never heard of anyone being told to pray for relief from cancer. Outside maybe certain very rural parts of the American South, that is. So what is this? You're ordering me to pray? Because I allegedly have a disease? I dismantle my life and career and entered nine months of low-income treatment for a disease, and I'm prescribed prayer? Does the word retrograde signify? Am I in a sociohistorical era I don't know about? What exactly is the story here? — David Foster Wallace

Chocolate is the greatest gift to women ever created, next to the likes of Paul Newman and Gene Kelly. It's something that should be had on a daily basis. — Sandra Bullock

Real ugly endings are better than fake happily ever after's — Colleen Hoover

I felt sure that [Oyarsa] was what we call "good," but I wasn't sure whether I liked "goodness" so much as I had supposed. — C.S. Lewis

Unrest and pain and sorrow are the shadows of life. — James Allen

I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways. — Henry David Thoreau

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous. — Sophie Marceau

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out. — Alan Bennett

I hear actresses talking about this all the time - this idea that you sit in meetings and the studio says, "Well, you can't do that because the audience won't like that. They won't root for you. It's not sympathetic." I think that we've been served this one dish for so long that we believe that it's all that audiences want, but when we test them or throw something out there that has some truth to it, they seem to always respond. — Kristen Stewart

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home. — John Wayne

The time before was slow, as much as I grow as much the time don't forgive. As most people will say if you fuck the past, the past fucks you! — Deyth Banger

It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils.
It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray. — C.S. Lewis

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. — Rainer Maria Rilke