Seiscientos Treinta Quotes & Sayings

Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death. — Francois Fenelon

Noah had been living when he was murdered. Gansey had been marking time. — Maggie Stiefvater

I was seeking within myself the human being I had so long lost sight of, hoping that my passion had only been distorted but had never been completely suppressed, by the social illusion, by the dominant ideal of "concealing emotions". I wished to shout: "I broke away from your cold and petrified world in which I was one of the wheels running noiselessly in the great machine, one of the idle wheels. I have plunged into an unknown abyss; and in this one hour of the plunge I have lived more fully than in all sheltered years in your circle. I do not belong to you anymore, I may be on the heights or in the depths, but never shall I return to the dead levels of your philistine comfort. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

ISIS already has strongholds in Syria, while the Free Syrian Army desperately needs more U.S. assistance. — John Barrasso

Free will...it's all the rage these days — Lauren Kate

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

There is but on virtue
the eternal sacrifice of self. — George Sand

Do I believe in helping people? he wondered. He might help people, he might not help them, he did not know beforehand, anything was possible. He did not seem to have a belief, or did not seem to have a belief regarding help. Perhaps I am the stony ground, he thought. — J.M. Coetzee

There was only one small probelm. It wasn't Frank I reached for, deep in the night, waking out of sleep. It wasn't his smooth, lithe body that walked my dreams a roused me so that I came awake moist and gasping, my heart pounding from the half-remembered touch. But I would never touch that man again.
"Jamie," I whispered. "Oh Jamie. — Diana Gabaldon

Damon: Is it working? Being in her world? Does it make you feel alive? — L.J.Smith

What do I want from this life? What makes you happy is not enough. All the things that satisfy our instincts only satisfy the animal in us. I want more. I want to look up to myself and when I die, I want to smile because of the things I have done, not cry for the things I haven't done. — Tom Hurndall

Alec approached me slowly, cautiously, as someone might approach a deer in the forest, afraid at any moment the animal might bolt and sprint away.
"There now," he whispered.
His hands brushed my cheeks, an infinite tenderness in his fingers, soaking into my skin, sending waves of calming love into my shattered soul. The simple touch of his skin so close to mine was enough to thaw my rigid body. I raised my eyes to his, uncertain, but no longer afraid. — Nikki Landis

All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry Help! — William James