The Designated Mourner Quotes & Sayings

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

God, how I hate the future. It's a cult. A tyranny of progress. And anyone who speaks against it is shunned. But all tyrannies must efficiently erase the past if they're to work. I like the past. The past was solid, simple, and real. The rooms were large, the food was good, and we knew who our enemies were. I feel misty for old tyrannies. The ones which beat you, enslaved you, tried to break your spirit, and in doing so gave your life the only enhancement it really needs: a sense of purpose. The tyranny of the future doesn't take away our choices; it swamps us in them. It doesn't curb our freedoms; it tube-feeds us with them until we rupture like neglected factory geese. — Matt Suddain

Trust your heart, and the answer will always become clear. — Robbie Vorhaus

You must open a little, or rather raise on high your corolla so that the Bread of Angels may come as divine dew to strengthen you, and to give you all that is wanting to you. — Therese Of Lisieux

My hands twitch and wiggle.
Jo sees them, shakes her head and mouths, "Sit on your hands."
She can't be serious. As if my butt would stop my hands even if it could. Does she not realize it's in league with the rest of me? — Eliza Crewe

The sacredness of existence is spiritual. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Entertainment has seduced us into believing that we have a chance to live the life they live in the movies. Even the people in the movies don't live that life. It doesn't take 135 minutes to make a life, it takes almost a century. Everything doesn't depend on what happens in the next ninety seconds. Ever. — Seth Godin

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy. — Charles Baudelaire

Cap and trade is a sledge hammer to freedom. — Rush Limbaugh

We emerge into the light not by denying our pain, but by walking through it. — Joan Borysenko

I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me. — Sarah Bernhardt

KPMG was prosecuted for fraud, — Brandon L. Garrett

That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense! — George Meredith

I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way. — Eric Bana