Tirith Mission Quotes & Sayings

How was Gengo to know, Saigyo reflected, that this unheroic existence imposed even greater torment than the icy lashings of the Nachi Falls in its thousand-foot leap? How was Gengo to realize that Saigyo had not slept a single night undisturbed since he had fled his home for the Eastern Hills, that his sleep was haunted by the cries of his beloved daughter from whom he had torn himself.
Who knew that during the day, when he went about his tasks of drawing water and chopping wood as he composed verses, the sighting of the wind in the treetops of the valleys below and the pines surrounding the temple sounded to him like the mourning of his young wife, and so troubled his nights that sleep no longer visited him? Never again would Saigyo find peace. He had wrenched asunder the living boughs of the tree that was his life. Remorse and compassion for his loved ones would dog him to the end of his days. — Eiji Yoshikawa

The trouble is that essays always have to sound like God talking for eternity, and that isn't the way it ever is. People should see that it's never anything other than just one person talking from one place in time and space and circumstance. It's never been anything else, ever, but you can't get that across in an essay. — Robert M. Pirsig

It is interesting how often unintelligent, even stupid, women manage their emotional lives more satisfactorily than do their cleverer sisters. — P.D. James

The secret to greatness:
do what has been overlooked by the great. — Matshona Dhliwayo

That democratic socialism, the great utopia of the last few generations, is not only unachievable, but that to strive for it produces something so utterly different that few of those who wish it would be prepared to accept the consequences, many will not believe until the connection has been laid bare in all its aspects. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

I can't believe I was a fat person for most of my life. — Ricki Lake

Happiness is 'happening' in the good souls, those God loves. That love is mirrored in terms of Happiness. — Priyavrat Thareja

Can you lose something that was never yours to begin with? - Keira — S.C. Stephens

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. — Georges Bataille

I learned as a really young kid, when my dad was telling me one story and my mom was telling me another that, even as a 5-year-old boy, there was no way that both of these stories are true. Something in the middle is true, and I have to figure out what it is, what the truth is, and I never did quite figure that out. — Moshe Kasher

I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless. — Michael Frayn

Dumbledore reckons You-Know-Who's getting stronger again as well? Ron whispered. — J.K. Rowling

You're the only man I know willing to jump from the top floor of a skyscraper, naked with an axe just to get the bad guy - Selena — David Gallie

Tomorrow, a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson