Puramque Quotes & Sayings

The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
[Lat., Et metus ille foras praeceps Acheruntis agundus,
Funditis humanam qui vitam turbat ab imo,
Omnia suffuscans mortis nigrore, neque ullam
Esse voluptatem liquidam puramque relinquit.] — Lucretius

There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when a man goes to the woods he goes because he needs to. I think he is drawn to the wilderness much as he is drawn to a woman: it is, in its way, his opposite. It is as far as possible unlike his home or his work or anything he will ever manufacture. For that reason he can take from it a solace-an understanding of himself, of what he needs and what he can do without-such as he can find nowhere else. — Wendell Berry

I have learned that it is not the truth that will hurt you - it is the lies. — Marion Elizabeth Witte

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. — E. E. Cummings

Stories are a kind of theme park of mortality. Deadnyland. — James W. Blinn

A sense of humor isn't about being funny. It's about being human. — Michael Kerr

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex. — Yash Chopra