Silksong Quotes & Sayings

Meditation puts reason in its authority and preeminence. It helpeth to deliver it form its captivity to the sense, and setteth it again upon the throne of the soul. When reason is silent, it is usually subject; for when it is asleep the senses domineer ... Reason is at the strongest when it is most in action. Now, meditation produceth reason into act (573). — Richard Baxter

Don't try to change the world. To find yourself in a new world, change your thoughts. — Debasish Mridha

From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment. — Lucretius

It's a fucking shame that she's so intense because she's gorgeous. But there's something completely fucking terrifying about her. — Calia Read

I believe that nothing is more beautiful, profound, sympathetic, reasonable, brave, and perfect than Christ. With jealous love, I say to myself, not only that his equal cannot be found, but that it does not exist. And more, if someone should bring me proof that Christ is outside the truth, then I should prefer to remain with Christ than with the truth.

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Letter to Natalya Fonvizina, soon after his release from Siberia. cf. The Possessed, Pt.2, Ch.I.vii] — Geir Kjetsaa

Every year I want to experience something that makes me say, "this is the best day of my life." — Robert Cheeke

Privacy is not negotiable. — Paul Scofield

Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect. — Hippocrates

Live your spirit's dreams, not your mind's. — Alan Cohen

Do not ask questions until you have trained yourself not to know the answers. — Jack Gardner

It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do principally nourish and abound. For the good opinion of our fellow-men is the strongest though not the purest motive to virtue. The privations of poverty render us too cold and callous, and the privileges of property too arrogant and confidential, to feel; the first places us beneath the influence of opinion
the second, above it. — Charles Caleb Colton