Famous Quotes

Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?

~ Bill Watterson

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.

~ Elizabeth Zimmermann

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.

~ Alice Sebold

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

~ Kahlil Gibran

In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.

~ Oliver Sacks

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

~ Suzanne Collins

He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. I will go mad! he annouced.

~ Douglas Adams

Sometimes you just have those days where everything goes wrong. But sometimes, and totally unexpectedly, something can go right.

~ Leila Sales

It's like this old patchwork quilt my momma used to have...Each piece on that quilt meant something. And some of those pieces were the damn ugliest things you've ever seen...But some of the pieces were so beautiful they almost hurt my eyes to look at when I was a kid...That's the best you can hope for, Danny. That your life turns out like that patchwork quilt. That you can add some bright, sparkling pieces to the dirty, stained ones you have so far. That in the end, the bright patches might take up more space on your quilt than the dark ones.

~ Brooke Mckinley

life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

No one is without troubles, without personal hardships and genuine challenges.  That fact may not be obvious because most people don't advertise their woes and heartaches.  But nobody, not even the purest heart, escapes life without suffering battle scars.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

All good children's stories are the same: young creature breaks rules, has incredible adventure, then returns home with the knowledge that aforementioned rules are there for a reason.Of course, the actual message to the careful reader is: break rules as often as you can, because who the hell doesn't want to have an adventure?

~ Brian K. Vaughan

The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces.

~ Marie Lu

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

~ Jodi Picoult

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

~ Abraham Verghese

But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.

~ Banana Yoshimoto

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

~ Philip Pullman

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

~ Ambrose Bierce

I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.

~ John Green

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

~ J.m. Barrie

People will always have opinions about your decision because they're not courageous enough to take action on their opinion.

~ Steve Maraboli

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

~ Alan Bennett

You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn't matter if you're monster or human. Living hurts.

~ Victoria Schwab

God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.

~ Charlotte Brontë

It is when we think we can act like God, that all respect is lost, and I think this is the downfall of peace. We lie if we say we do not see color and culture and difference. We fool ourselves and cheat ourselves when we say that all of us are the same. We should not want to be the same as others and we should not want others to be the same as us. Rather, we ought to glory and shine in all of our differences, flaunting them fabulously for all to see! It is never a conformity that we need! We need not to conform! What we need is to burst out into all these beautiful colors!

~ C. Joybell C.

It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.

~ Paulo Coelho

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

~ Stephen King

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

~ Whoopi Goldberg

People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

~ Patrick Ness

Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires expressed for others to hear, to see and to understand. We all want to matter to someone, to leave a mark. Writers just take those thoughts, feelings and desires and express them in such a way that the reader not only reads them but feels them as well.

~ Vicktor Alexander

But what are loyalty and caring really worth?To me? Everything.

~ Richelle Mead

WE two boys together clinging,One the other never leaving,Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching,Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving.No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving,threatening,Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, onthe turf or the sea-beach dancing,Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feeblenesschasing,Fulfilling our foray.

~ Walt Whitman

When you're the most happening person at the party, it's time to leave

~ Kelly Cutrone

If her enemies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again.

~ Kristin Cashore

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

~ Ray Bradbury

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

~ Steve Jobs

The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment to be free to choose a life that makes you happy.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss?

~ Susan Gordon Lydon