Sorabji Opus Quotes & Sayings

Oh, to be laughed at when I have the courage to speak my heart. I don't want to live in a world like this."
-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year — Yasunari Kawabata

Read what you like, not what you're told to like. That way you'll read for a lifetime. — Carew Papritz

Winning is irreplaceable winners are. — Pushpa Rana

One time, that true brass thimble. — Sue Monk Kidd

The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining — George Orwell

Those who are not capable of sinning are said that they have attained freedom. The knowledge of the Truth raises them even more. This makes them both free and above this world. But only Love creates. He who became free thanks to knowledge, because of Love remains a slave of those who have not managed to attain the Freedom of knowledge yet. He brings the knowledge to them and this develops the latter because it calls them to the Freedom. Love takes nothing: how can it take something? Everything belongs to it. It does not say, "This is mine! And this is mine!" But it says: "This is yours!" — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

I craved knowledge. I craved facts. I searched for them like lifebuoys in the sea. But statistics are tricky things. — Matt Haig

In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis, we will react heroically and with humanity. — David Morrissey

To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads screwed on a lot better. — Amy Winehouse

The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful. — Terence McKenna

My father is in a new version of Heaven. He hasn't time to consider it yet, whether he is happy because he is hastening along the road with his father as day breaks, or just because he was asked to come and that now this is actually happening, or because he has been asked for a speech from Shakespeare and the phrases are coming like a long golden thread out of his mouth even before he has time to think of them. The words are there, and flow, as he works hard to, and now matches the long pole-vault strides of his father. — Niall Williams

Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end. — Germaine De Stael

Evil is whatever distracts. — Franz Kafka

She placed the check facedown on the table. "Whenever you're ready. Thanks so much, Finn. — Ava Hayden

If you choose to be sad then you will be sad but there times you don't know why you're sad. Tears start flowing from your eyes. — Ann Marie Aguilar