Provosts Scholarship Quotes & Sayings

The worst part is wondering how you'll find the strength tomorrow
to go on doing what you did today and have been doing for much
too long, where you'll find the strength for all that stupid running around, those projects that come to nothing, those attempts to escape from crushing necessity, which always founder and serve only to convince you one more time that destiny is implacable, that every night will find you down and out, crushed by the dread of more and more sordid and insecure tomorrows. And maybe it's treacherous old age coming on, threatening the worst. Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I've never been able to kill myself. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since. — P. J. O'Rourke

Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships. — Samuel Johnson

His knuckles slid down, grazing my cheek. — Lauren Myracle

My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump. — Dana Goodyear

When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something. — John Keble

I feel that when Chad is in the room, I can tap into this other thing where music comes from. I don't know. It's just this really magical, special connection and relationship. — Ian Axel

I liked Sartre's views but not his writing. — Tahar Ben Jelloun