Famous Quotes

If last night proved anything, it's that life is a strong drink served up in an extremely short - and fragile - shot glass.

~ Samantha Sotto

لقد عرف كيف يموت ، كما عرف كيف يعيش

~ Isabel Allende

This very pride in keeping his word was that he was keeping it to miscreants. It was his last triumph over these lunatics to go down into their dark room and die for something that they could not even understand. The barrel-organ seemed to give the marching tune with the energy and the mingled noises of a whole orchestra; and he could hear deep and rolling, under all the trumpets of the pride of life, the drums of the pride of death.

~ G.k. Chesterton

he [Llewelyn Powys] has always in mind the great touchstone Death & consequently life is always judged as how far it fits us, or compensates us, for ultimately dying.

~ Philip Larkin

Our favorite games were killing.Our favorite books were death.It had been beaten into us:God is love.Not the parched face and gnarledcapes across a stick body; jitteringin the nude sky, we couldn't seetrying to touch usfor the blood in our eyes.

~ Joseph Bathanti

...The typhoon of madness that swept through the country [of Rwanda] between April 7 and the third week of May accounted for 80 percent of the victims of the genocide.That means about eight hundred thousand people were murdered during those six weeks, making the daily killing rate at least five times that of the Nazi death camps. The simple peasants of Rwanda, with their machetes, clubs, and sticks with nails, had killed at a faster rate than the Nazi death machine with its gas chambers, mass ovens, and firing squads. In my opinion, the killing frenzy of the Rwandan genocide shared a vital common thread with the technological efficiency of the Nazi genocide--satanic hate in abundance was at the core of both.

~ John Rucyahana

There is such a tremendous need for spiritual guidance for those who are facing death, as a patient or with a loved one. Emotions and grief flood everyone involved. There are so many unknown factors. Many times doctors can predict what may happen physically, but no one can truthfully answer the big questions for us, questions like, What is dying like? Will it hurt? What is going to happen to me after I die? Is God going to be there waiting for me? Is God going to be angry at how I lived my life? These questions and fears clearly need to be addressed spiritually and not brushed aside.

~ Megory Anderson

That was magic, sweetest.” The witch flexed her fingers, wriggled them in front of her. “Did she think it a wave of the hands? A slip of the tongue?” A kiss upon her skin. She could see the woman reaching out and taking her in hand, kissing each finger as though they were her possessions. Then it was gone. Charlotte blinked. The woman had not stirred. “Not all things are so simple. I was he and he was me and I took your poison into myself, and made it his. All things join beneath the earth. I burned, then so did he. More will burn. Come hair or wool, more will burn.

~ Chris Galford

Even corpses had purpose, or could be given one. A man could make himself an island his entire life, only to have reason itself laid about him, a fabricated existence. Identity became relative, history nonexistent. As they said, dead men told no tales.

~ Chris Galford

The adjacent shores resounded with the alternate shouts of the sons of liberty and the groans of their parting spirits.

~ William Apess

The process of dying is a difficult one, with many fears and anxieties, but it is also a very mysterious and wondrous process. It involves both the body and the soul in the greatest transition we are ever called to make. When I sit vigil with those who are at the edge of death, moments away from crossing over, I am constantly in awe of the process happening in front of me, one that each one of us must eventually go through.

~ Megory Anderson

Did you know that 'I told you so' has a brother,Jacob? she asked cutting me off. His name is 'Shut the hell up'.

~ Stephenie Meyer

All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.

~ Sarah Dessen

And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.

~ Madeline Miller

[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.)

~ A.a. Milne

What a curious power words have.

~ Tadeusz Borowski

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.

~ T.f. Hodge

Head up, heart open. To better days!

~ T.f. Hodge

In quoting others, we cite ourselves.

~ Julio Cortázar

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be

~ E. Lockhart

I see all of you, Rhys. And there is not one part that I do not love with everything I am.

~ Sarah J. Maas

Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

~ Anna Wintour

The sky is not my limit...I am.

~ T.f. Hodge

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Love, too, was just a question of time

~ Paulo Coelho

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.

~ James Allen

...we're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell.

~ Ruta Sepetys

My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.

~ Anaïs Nin

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

She was born to be free, let her run wild in her own way and you will never lose her.

~ Nikki Rowe

It's such a silly little thing, the heart.

~ Ned Vizzini

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.

~ Suzy Kassem

Love spiritually, not strategically.

~ T.f. Hodge