Unica Quotes & Sayings

Virtue is the only and true nobility.
[Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.] — Juvenal

As if one was mistaken in believing that love protects life. As if it were a lie that love is a blessing. — Unica Zurn

Your skin was song. Your advice was:see. — Unica Zurn

When he actually comes, he brings her a book containing white paper, as if it were a sign of her salvation, and she reads a dedication
something about people who have lost hope but start to swim in the whiteness of these leaves and perhaps find a new beginning with their first pen stroke. — Unica Zurn

I didn't write with a target audience in mind. What excited me was how much I would enjoy writing about Harry. I never thought about writing for children - children's books chose me. I think if it is a good book anyone will read it. — J.K. Rowling

You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write! — Ray Bradbury

You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself. — Arthur Helps

It had helped to keep her sane, that writing. Then, when time had begun again and real people had entered it, she'd abandoned it here. Now it's a whisper from the past.
Is that what writing amounts to? The voice your ghost would have, if it had a voice? — Margaret Atwood

Before the revolution I thought there are appropriate individuals who would do the job according to Islam, therefore I repeatedly said that clerics would go after their own job. Then I saw that most of them were inappropriate individuals and I found out that what I said was not true, so I came and clearly announced that I was wrong. — Ruhollah Khomeini

The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue.
[Lat., Semita certe
Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.] — Juvenal

Without books, the world will be void. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is a very beautiful day. The woman looks around and thinks: 'there cannot ever have been a spring more beautiful than this. I did not know until now that clouds could be like this. I did not know that the sky is the sea and that clouds are the souls of happy ships, sunk long ago. I did not know that the wind could be tender, like hands as they caress - what did I know - until now? — Unica Zurn

They invent a howling theatrical language through which it becomes possible to express the grief of the whole world, a language understood by no one but the two of them. — Unica Zurn

Worshiping someone requires complete passivity. To turn the principle of immobility into a rule. — Unica Zurn

But how long must she sing in the darkness until she is at last allowed out into the light of day? — Unica Zurn