Virreyes Quotes & Sayings

The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning. — Edward Abbey

Cannot go with these, for I have not tested them. — Anonymous

When one creature is murdered, another is immediately deprived of life in a slow torturing manner; then the executioners, their hands yet reeking with the blood of innocence, believe that they have done a great deed. — Mary Shelley

Whoever said that love hurts was wrong. Love is excruciating, especially when you can feel it slipping through your fingers and there is nothing you can do about it. Like someone was playing tug-of-war with my limbs, ripping to shreds whatever was left behind. What it would feel like when love was lost ... I wouldn't survive that — Julie Hockley

Many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken. — Anna Letitia Barbauld

ideas, different ways of looking at the world." "Different beliefs?" "Yes, different beliefs, too. But we don't have contact with other people. We go far too many years without seeing anyone other than ourselves. In fact, I do not think it is a good thing that we spend our entire lives on this ship." "Why not?" I was amazed at how open she was with me, and I wanted to encourage her to keep talking. "We stagnate, and we have no history." "We — Richard Paul Russo

Are there weapons in a bookstore?'
'It's a store full of books, which are objects that can be thrown as well as read,' Monty replied blandly.
The Crows cocked his head. 'I had no idea you humans lived with so much danger. — Anne Bishop

Seize God's vision. Activate your faith. Make your move. — Steven Furtick

And then there is emotional death born out of necessity and measured solely by the absence of grief it causes: the turning off the lights of oneself in order to shut down the feelings of being alive. Eventually I just checked out of the world altogether, leaving behind only my body, like a snail abandoning its shell. Sometimes I would catch myself in the mirror, surprised to see someone staring back at me, a stranger whose face I struggled to connect as my own, whose body was visible and intact despite the feeling that I moved through the world as a ghost. — Kerry Kletter

I want a real encounter with something true and disconcerting about peoples' natures. — Karen Russell