Sofies Verden Quotes & Sayings

There's no way to escape the crushing sense of loss, the endless exhaustion of time sawing away at the people and things I've loved. — Lauren Oliver

The world of the living was obscene. I was powerless to do anything. — Haruki Murakami

My job is to get people back to work and make tough decisions. I've been willing to do it. — Rick Scott

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes. — Jodi Picoult

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world. — Eckhart Tolle

When You Reveal Those Rose-Colored Cheeks
Ghazal 1711
1941 When you reveal those rose-colored cheeks (of yours),you
make the stones whirl2 from joy.
Put (your) head out from the veil once again, for the sake of
amazed lovers
So that knowledge may lose the way, (and) the intellectual may
shatter (his) learning;
So that water may become a pearl3 from your reflection, (and) fire
may quit war.
1945 With (the presence of) your beauty, I don't desire the (lovely
full) moon or those few little hanging lanterns (in the heavens).
(And) with (the presence of) your face, I don't call the ancient rusty
sky a "mirror."
You breathed into and created this narrow world4 in another form
once again.
O Venus,5 make that harp melodious again, in desire for his
Mars-like eyes! — Rumi

Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors. — Lauren Hutton

When she awoke, the world was on fire. — Scott Westerfeld

Vehemently denying something always implies guilt. — Kiera Cass

Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos. — Sydney J. Harris

What early Christianity meant by 'faith' (pistis) was initially nothing other than running ahead and clinging to a model or idea whose attainability was still uncertain. Faith is purely anticipatory, in the sense that it already has an effect when it mobilizes the existence of the anticipatory towards the goal through anticipation. In analogy for the placebo effect, one would have to call this the movebo effect. — Peter Sloterdijk

What happened to our friendship? I really think it's our obligation as friends to be brutally honest and be frank with them and say, 'Look, I'm sorry, but your baby is fking boring.' — David Cross