Quincetta Quotes & Sayings

I dined with Legrandin on the terrace of his house by moonlight. "There is a charming quality, is there not," he said to me, "in this silence; for hearts that are wounded, as mine is, a novelist whom you will read in time to come asserts that there is no remedy but silence and shadow. And you see this, my boy, there comes in all our lives a time, towards which you still have far to go, when the weary eyes can endure but one kind of light, the light which a fine evening like this prepares for us in the stillroom for darkness, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence. — Marcel Proust

Your grandparents often found themselves in dark rooms, mapping out each other's bodies, claiming whole countries with their mouths. — Warsan Shire

From suffering that has been/ Decreed no man will ever find escape — Sophocles

I surround myself with strong willed, courageous personalities, because I've got to be coached by the best. — Aeriel Miranda

Luck is a strong horse; it can carry man to very distant places! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

How does consciousness ever begin? How could that possibly occur? And is that question any less enigmatic than trying to figure how it might arise at a later date? Is consciousness synonymous with everything? — Robert Lanza

The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people. — P. J. O'Rourke