Wittnebel Quotes & Sayings

We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even accidental death we can ascribe to fate. But for a man to die of no apparent cause, for a man to die simply because he is a man, brings us so close to the invisible boundary between life and death that we no longer know which side we are on. Life becomes death, and it is as if this death has owned this life all along. Death without warning. Which is to say: life stops. And it can stop at any moment. — Paul Auster

Her face looked for the answer that is always concealed in language. — John Steinbeck

Sometimes your life falls apart just enough to allow you to put it back together again in a whole new way. — Cris Hammond

Hell is the special pain that dwells in that loss which you yourself have caused — Elliot Perlman

I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream ... he realizes that he's gone just about as far as talent or fortune will take him. The dream will not happen, and he now faces the choice of accepting this fact like a grownup and moving on to more sensible pursuits, or refusing the truth and ending up bitter, quarrelsome, and slightly pathetic. — Barack Obama

At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics. — Danica McKellar

Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare. — Audre Lorde

The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one ought to try, however incompetent one may feel before the unspeakable perfection and radiant splendour of nature. — Vincent Van Gogh

On the religious Right and religious people in general have the feeling that the world is not just material, the world is not just there for us to do what we want with. That our bodies, things have an immaterial essence, a spiritual essence that God is in all of us. — Jonathan Haidt

What a thing this sleeplessness was!...If sleep, she thought, could be compared to a gentle lake ina dark place, the sleeplessness was a roaring ocean, a raging, wind-buffeted voyage, lit with mad rocket-lights, pursued by wild phantoms from behind, plunging upon fearful rocks ahead, a mad tempest of the past and present and future all in one. Through all this the pale, strenuous mariner must somehow steer a way, until at last the weary dawn, not of sleep, but of resignation to sleeplessness, comes to calm the waters of the mind. — Patrick Hamilton

I love improvising. — Lasse Hallstrom

Unfortunately, my mind wasn't in control yesterday. My hormones were, and hormones control my body and they're impulsive bastards. — Emma Hart

Our sons and daughters must be trained in national service, taught to give as well as to receive. — Emmeline Pankhurst

The worst blows typically come from family. — John Eldredge

I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that i finally obey. — Albert Camus