Severne Overdrive Quotes & Sayings

It is of course perfectly natural to assume that everyone else is having a far more exciting time than you. Human beings, for instance, have a phrase that describes this phenomenon, 'The other man's grass is always greener.'
The Shaltanac race of Broopkidren 13 had a similar phrase, but since their planet is somewhat eccentric, botanically speaking, the best they could manage was, 'The other Shaltanac's joopleberry shrub is always a more mauvy shade of pinky-russet.' And so the expression soon fell into disuse, and the Shaltanacs had little option but to become terribly happy and contented with their lot, much to the surprise of everyone else in the Galaxy who had not realized that the best way not to be unhappy is not to have a word for it. — Douglas Adams

A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow. — Robert Greene

The Goddess teaches us that every ending is also a beginning. May there be rebirth from this death. — Cate Tiernan

Man no longer lives in the beginning
he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the beginning and going towards the end. He sees that his life is determined by these two facets, of which he knows only that he does not know them — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. — Arthur Helps