T Tarde Quotes & Sayings

Edward and I had not had a last grand scene of farewell, nor did I plan one. To speak the word was to make it final. It would be the same as typing the words The End on the last page of a manuscript. So we did not say our goodbyes, and we stayed very close to each other, always touching. Whatever end found us, it would not find us separated. — Stephenie Meyer

Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one - so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim - the greater man. — Homer

Forgetfulness is the beginning of happiness as fear is the beginning of wisdom. — Gabriel De Tarde

there's a time and place for taking offence. — Mark Lawrence

Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa.
To the latecomers are left the bones. — Junot Diaz

Life, said Tarde, is the search for the impossible by way of the useless. Let us always search for the impossible, since that is our destiny, and let us search for it by way of the useless, since no path goes by any other way, but let us rise to the consciousness that nothing we search for can be found, and that nothing along the way deserves a fond kiss or memory.

We weary of everything, said the scholiast, except understanding. Let us understand, let us keep understanding, and let us make ghostly flowers out of this understanding, shrewdly entwining them into wreaths and garlands which are also doomed to wilt. — Fernando Pessoa

A consulting position might work in another profession, but not in pro football. There's no such thing. They give a guy a parking spot and put his name up as a consultant, and in six months, they erase the name. — John Madden

Creativity is the evolutionary impulse in the Universe. — Deepak Chopra

Opening myself to criticism was a big door to go through. You can be afraid about something your whole life, about being out in public where people know your name but not you, and it can cripple your ability to try new things. — Peggy Rathmann

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract. — William Shakespeare

I looked to Demi. "Save him," I said, half command, half plea. She nodded. "I will," she said, and started playing again. This — Seanan McGuire

Suffering is not a problem that needs a solution as much as it's an experience that needs compassion. Because — Ann Voskamp

Instead of explaining everything by the supposed supremacy of a law of evolution, which compels collective phenomena to reproduce and repeat themselves indefinitely in a certain order, - instead of thus explaining lesser facts by greater, and the part by the whole, - I explain collective resemblances of the whole by the massing together of minute elementary acts - the greater by the lesser and the whole by the part. — G. Tarde

Sometimes, friends drift in and out of our lives like fashion accessories - in one season and out the next. — Jess Rothenberg

As I live I must die daily My old nature I must kill — Robert Greene

The pursuit of the impossible through the useless. — Gabriel De Tarde

God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself. — Francois Fenelon

Pride is an evil dragon; it sleeps underneath your heart and then roars when you need silence. — Jodi Picoult