Tokanit Quotes & Sayings

Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble. — Nadeem Aslam

One cure for the pain of desecration is the move towards total PROFANATION: in other words, to wipe out all vestiges of sanctity from the once worshipped object, to make it merely a thing OF the world, and not just a thing IN the world, something that is nothing over and above the substitutes that can at any time replace it. That is what we see in the spreading addiction to pornography - a profanation that removes the sexual bond entirely from the realm of intrinsic values. It involves wiping out one area in which the idea of the beautiful had taken root, so as to protect ourselves from the possibility of love it and therefore losing it. — Roger Scruton

"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera." — Margaret Bourke-White

Kids are forever, even if love isn't, right? — Emma Straub

I don't think any change in the world has been more significant than the change in the status of women ... A woman's world was her home, her family, and perhaps a little community service. Today, a woman's world is as broad as the universe. — Belle S. Spafford

When you die, your soul crosses the Dusk between life and the Blank Sea. The journey takes forty-nine days, — David Mitchell

It is easier to give than to receive, is that it? Pride is a sin, Father — Agota Kristof

For an immortal life, don't look for power, but be the source of power and inspiration for others. — Debasish Mridha

There is some kind of elegant gentleness to Paris that I don't quite understand yet. — Robert Black

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy. — George Eliot

America, to me, is freedom. — Willie Nelson