Tabito Quotes & Sayings

We're not savages. We're English. — William Golding

Since we must all die sooner or later, let us enjoy life while we can! — Otomo No Tabito

SakeThe jewel which brightly shines at nightIs precious, but cannot measure up To the delights of drinking sake,Drowning one's troubles in the cup. Otomo no Tabito — Reiko Chiba

A fool's mouth is bigger than his brain. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The only consistent narrative we possess is one that we share with every other life-form: we are born, we live, and then we die. — Steven Erikson

To be in the privileged position where I am able to give something back is, for me, perhaps the single most important measure of success. — Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber

Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves. — Emile M. Cioran

Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. — Chuck Palahniuk

Taking the life of another is always a moral crime. — Angelo Scola

ENEMIES OFTEN become mirror images of each other. — Mark Kurlansky

Swlmmlng After swallowing some water at Changsha I taste a Wuchang fish in the surf and swim across the Yangtze River that winds ten thousand li. I see the entire Chu sky. Wind batters me, waves hit me-I don't care. Better than walking lazily in the patio. Today I have a lot of time. Here on the river the Master said "Dying-dying into the past-is like a river flowing." — Mao Zedong

A little tap on the window pane, as though something had struck it, followed by a plentiful light falling sound, as of grains of sand being sprinkled from a window overhead, gradually spreading, intensifying, acquiring a regular rhythm, becoming fluid, sonorous, musical, immeasurable, universal: it was the rain. — Marcel Proust

Think about the decade after Iraq, not just the day after. — Joe Biden

Pathetic is when you assume the worst, because you are incapable of thinking beyond your own mental capacity. — Emma Paul