Spiegelschrank Quotes & Sayings

All men have a legend because of death. Humanity wasn't legendary any longer: it was a myth. — Romain Gary

In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence. — Steve Erickson

Nevertheless, when it is your lot to have to endure something that is (or seems to you) worse than the ordinary lot of mankind, Spinoza's principle of thinking about the whole, or at any rate about larger matters than your own grief, is a useful one. There are even times when it is comforting to reflect that human life, with all that is contains of evil and suffering, is an infinitesimal part of the life of the universe. Such reflections may not suffice to constitute a religion, but in a painful world they are a help towards sanity and an antidote to the paralysis of utter despair. - about Spinoza — Bertrand Russell

hard to get, but she was already talking like the diva of — Mary Higgins Clark

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. — Rebecca West

The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily seen in the Palomar reflector; collisions between and among them do, of course, occur. But these collisions are very long and silent slides. Billions of stars sift amont each other untouched, too distant even to be moved, heedless as always, hushed. The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. But God knows I have tried. — Annie Dillard

I'm a real low profile guy. So a date night for me is kind of curled up at home and watching something ... have a nice glass of wine, a nice meal and we're all set. — Vincent Piazza

These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine. — Dean Koontz

Everyone who has any familiarity with psychology knows about the danger of disowning the murderer within. Far fewer people understand the tragedy of disowning the hero within. — Nathaniel Branden