Wijsbegeerte Quotes & Sayings

The winter drove them mad. It drove every man mad who had ever lived through it; there was only ever the question of degree. The sun disappeared, and you could not leave the tunnels, and everything and everyone you loved was ten thousand miles away. At best, a man suffered from strange lapses in judgment and perception, finding himself at the mirror about to comb his hair with a mechanical pencil, stepping into his undershirt, boiling up a pot of concentrated orange juice for tea. Most men felt a sudden blaze of recovery in their hearts at the first glimpse of a pale hem of sunlight on the horizon in mid-September. But there were stories, apocryphal, perhaps, but far from dubious, of men in past expeditions who sank so deeply into the drift of their own melancholy that they were lost forever. And few among the wives and families of the men who returned from a winter on the Ice would have said what they got back was identical to what they had sent down there. — Michael Chabon

Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile. — Paulo Coelho

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty. — Carl Sandburg

No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought. — Irving Thalberg

Feel free to become a slave to your own clone. And mine. Remember, you can never have too many lovers who look exactly the same as me. — Jarod Kintz

It is the literal, unvarnished truth, that the crack of the lash, and the shrieking of the slaves, can be heard from dark till bed time, on Epps' plantation, any day almost during the entire period of the cotton-picking season. — Solomon Northup