Stacey Jean Speer Quotes & Sayings

I had come to believe that the fear of death is always greatest in those who feel that they have not lived their life fully. A good working formula is: the more unlived life, or unrealized potential, the greater one's death anxiety. My — Irvin D. Yalom

I have nothing against 2 men sleeping together so long as I am not one of those 2 men. — Charles Bukowski

Men are born soft and supple; dead they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail. — Lao-Tzu

What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless. — Jane Hirshfield

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying. — Alexander Herzen

It's not good to dig in the past, raise the ghost up from the grave, and have it walk with the flesh. — Anthony Liccione

Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue. — Edmund Burke

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you. — Whitley Strieber

You're undressing me," he said thickly.
"It can't be helped."
"Wasn't complaining. — Tessa Dare