Pope Francis Lenten Quotes & Sayings

I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates. — Tad Williams

It had not been all suffering and horror. Life is never only one thing. — N.K. Jemisin

Wishing he'd...get the hell out the door before I do something crazy like ask him to whip out his goober. — Stephanie McAfee

The sun rises with a surprising intensity, a sign that June Gloom has cleared the runway and July is on approach. We are both tired, and it would've been to return to our bed after our morning walk, read from a book maybe, drift lazily in and out of sleep. But the sun beckons with a blazingly confrontational message: There is darkness, but there is also light. To stay in bed would be to embrace the darkness, the seizures, the octopus. To go outside is to embrace the light. — Steven Rowley

Stop, stop, stop!' he cried; stop talking a minute, for I see half. Will God give me strength? Will my brain make the one jump and see all? Heaven help me! I used to be fairly good at thinking ... Will my head split - or will it see? I see half - I only see half. — G.K. Chesterton

Lent comes providentially to reawaken us, to shake us from our lethargy. — Pope Francis

I am still young. I have a lot of time. And if someone breaks my records in the future, I won't cry. That's sport. — Noureddine Morceli

We seem to feel as though the life our children have
that we have built for them
is just a delicate house of cards, held together by the most intricate balancing of all its carefully selected components, and that the slightest shock, the slightest jar to all our perfect orchestration, will bring the whole edifice crashing down. — Judith Warner

By December an elastic skin of ice reached out hundreds of miles into the sea, rolling with every wave. — Will Chancellor

A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the flame, they go into the flame and sizzle to nothingness because they're so eager to get to the light on the other side. — Michael Cunningham

Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can't possibly act on. — Stefan Molyneux

I'm talking about the language of flowers. It's from the Victorian era, like your name. If a man gave a young lady a bouquet of flowers, she would race home and try to decode it like a secret message. Red roses mean love; yellow roses infidelity. So a man would have to choose his flowers carefully. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

I've committed to nothing ... and that's just suicide ... by tiny, tiny increments. — Nick Hornby

No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into ... — Djuna Barnes

what if that which ought to be doesn't exist — Alejandra Pizarnik