Sterilely Cleansed Quotes & Sayings

I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard. — Gayle Forman

I never thought it was fair for an 8-year-old child not to be able to afford shoes, or to wander the streets having to beg for money. To know that child's joy would end soon, when they realised there was no future. — Shakira

The first egg is white. I move the eggcup a little, so it's now in the watery sunlight that comes through the window and falls, brightening, waning, brightening again, on the tray. The shell of the egg is smooth but also grained; small pebbles of calcium are defined by the sunlight, like craters on the moon. It's a barren landscape, yet perfect; it's the sort of desert the saints went into, so their minds would not be distracted by profusion. I think that this is what God must look like: an egg. The life of the moon may not be on the surface, but inside. The egg is glowing now, as if it had an energy of its own. To look at the egg gives me intense pleasure. The sun goes and the egg fades. I — Margaret Atwood

Your writing blows, by the by. You split more infinitives than Gene Roddenberry. — Brian K. Vaughan

They say that a man is as faithful as his options, and in this moment I know it to be true. So I switched the phone off. It's too much. Even Jesus only had three temptations. — Neil Strauss

And you can shove your apology. If it can come out of your damned mouth, then you can stand by it. — Lora Leigh

It is my duty to give back with interest as much as I borrowed from this world. — Debasish Mridha

The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards I was pretty wildly brave - just willing to take life on. — Mike Mills

The greatest sin is to call yourself a sinner. You are a child of God. Though gold be covered with mud for centuries, it remains gold. So the pure 'gold' of the soul can be covered over with the mud of delusion for aeons, but in its true nature it remains forever undefiled."
- Paramhansa Yogananda — Paramahansa Yogananda

Befriend knowledge;
ignorance is your enemy.
Wisdom is strength;
ignorance is weakness. — Matshona Dhliwayo

This moment where we think we rest, when the brain is floating, you know, in sleep, is actually a moment where I could be very creative in a very strange, uncontrolled way. — Philippe Petit