Verstorbenen German Quotes & Sayings

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. — Pope Francis

The sky spoke to me," said Childermass. "If what I saw was true, then ... " He paused.
"Then what?" asked Mr Norrell.
In his weakened state Childermass had been thinking aloud. He had meant to say that if what he had seen was true, then everything that Strange and Norrell had ever done was child's-play and magic was a much stranger and more terrifying thing than any of them had thought of. Strange and Norrell had been merely throwing paper darts about a parlour, while real magic soared and swooped and twisted on great wings in a limitless sky far, far above them. — Susanna Clarke

In times of grief, you're waiting for something to happen, but the thing you're waiting for has already taken place. — Robert Goolrick

He drove into the spewing smoke of acres of burning truck tires and the planes descended and the transit cranes stood in rows at the marine terminal and he saw billboards for Hertz and Avis and Chevy Blazer, for Marlboro, Continental and Goodyear, and he realized that all the things around him, the planes taking off and landing, the streaking cars, the tires on the cars, the cigarettes that the drivers of the cars were dousing in their ashtrays
all these were on the billboards around him, systematically linked in some self-referring relationship that had a kind of neurotic tightness, an inescapability, as if the billboards were generating reality ... — Don DeLillo

It was the way Nana uttered the word - not so much saying it as spitting it at her - that made Mariam feel the full sting of it. — Khaled Hosseini

If only we could have them back as babies today, now that we have some idea what to do with them. — Nancy Mairs

Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through. — Bob Dylan

He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Do not encourage my behaviour. — Carlos Mencia

Scotland consistently produces world-class writers. — Sara Sheridan

You know how I always say that laughter is carbonated holiness? Well, Robin was the ultimate proof of that, and bubbles are spirit made visible. — Anne Lamott

Shiva" is Life. Shiva can be split as Sha+ee+Va where Sha stands for Shareeram or body, ee stands for eeshwari or life giving energy and Va stands for vayu or motion. Thus Shiva represents the body with life and motion. — D.K. HEMA HARI

A good thing this was, and that we should be so care-free and irresponsible, enjoying every minute of every day; for it was the Easter of 1914, the last Easter of the old, easy world, and our last, as well as our first, Easter as children together in the little house I had built for happiness. — Elizabeth Von Arnim