Somnus Dreadwood Quotes & Sayings

Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page? How much easier is it to surrended to materialism or cynicism or to a hundred other ways of life that are, in fact, ways to hide from life and from our fears. When we write, we resist the facile seduction of theses simpler roads. We insist on finding out and declaring the truths that we find, and we dare to out those truths on the page. — Jack Heffron

Everything passes, but nothign entirely goes away. — Jenny Diski

We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation and must remain in the sphere of intellectual comment, that a situation does not really become moral until we are confronted with the question of what shall be done in a concrete case, and are obliged to act upon our theory. — Jane Addams

I hate YouTube sometimes because people put up things of mine that were never meant for consumption and also because of some of the comments people write about my videos. — Joshua Bell

The value of 'Made in Italy' must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world. — Lapo Elkann

Authors, artists, and even philosophers are much better off having a very small number of fanatics behind them than a large number of people who appreciate their work. The number of persons who dislike the work don't count - there is no such thing as the opposite of buying your book, — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

One morning the girl was very thoughtful, and answered at random, and did not seem to Toad to be paying proper attention to his witty sayings and sparkling comments.

'Toad,' she said presently, 'just listen, please. I have an aunt who is a washerwoman.'

'There, there,' said Toad graciously and affably, 'never mind; think no more about it. I have several aunts who ought to be washerwomen. — Kenneth Grahame

It's hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people. — Jacque Fresco

What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties! — Henry David Thoreau

She's not beautiful not really only very good at looking beautiful. — Beatriz Williams

Hope is incomplete and ongoing. Faith is the substance of things hoped for and is complete. — Louis Zamperini

We may be immune to typhoid, tetanus, chicken-pox, diphtheria, but never memory. There is no inoculation against that. — Sebastian Barry

Becoming nothing and no one was something she knew how to do. — Dan Carr

Everything is connected, even the parts we don't like, especially the parts we don't like. — Julian Barnes

You", he said, "are the single exception that rule". The oldest, deepest, most beautiful flaw in his Silence."Without you, I would be a monster. — Nalini Singh