Am Quotes (page 241)

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• getting old
• thinking
• coincidence

It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me. Katherine Dunn

• go
• if i stay
• willfulness

If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going. Jeanette Winterson

• hear
• see
• hears

I am not what you see and hear.-Hal David Foster Wallace

• science
• look
• power

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance... Paul Hawken

• absolution
• abyss
• absolutes

I myself am an absolute abyss. Antonin Artaud

• growing old
• old
• finds

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself. Oscar Wilde

• world
• evening
• water

I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and straight away a hundred alternative routes present themselves. I choose one, no sooner begin, than a hundred more appear. Every time I try to narrow down my intent I expand it, and yet those straits and canals still lead me to the open sea, and then I realize how vast it all is, this matter of the mind. I am confounded by the shining water and the size of the world. Jeanette Winterson

• believe
• saying
• seeing

There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing. Neale Donald Walsch

• alone
• being alone
• stills

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know. Carl Jung

• heart
• tears
• climbing

As he was about to climb yet another dune, his heart whispered, "Be aware of the place where you are brought to tears. That's where I am, and thats where your treasure is. Paulo Coelho

• philosophical
• words
• paid

In the words of the philosopher Scepturn, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this? Terry Prachett

• short
• time
• space

I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space. James Joyce

• believe
• saying
• age

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written. George Orwell

• eyes
• money
• gold

I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold.- Coloured Money Mervyn Peake

• mind
• devil
• teacher

The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind. C. S. Lewis