Best Quotes (page 170)
![T. H. White quote: "Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to..."](/pic/253590/600x316/quotation-t-h-white-perhaps-we-all-give-the-best-of-our-hearts.jpg)
![Jerome K. Jerome quote: "It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless of..."](/pic/253386/600x316/quotation-jerome-k-jerome-it-is-always-the-best-policy-to-tell-the-truth.jpg)
So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence? not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream of what a city might at its best prove to be? its inhabitants became, and have remained, an embittered and amnesiac race, wounded but unable to connect through memory to the moment of injury, unable to summon the face of their violator.
Thomas Pynchon
My dear friend, what is this our life? A boat that swims in the sea, and all one knows for certain about it is that one day it will capsize. Here we are, two good old boats that have been faithful neighbors, and above all your hand has done its best to keep me from "capsizing"! Let us then continue our voyage—each for the other's sake, for a long time yet, a long time! We should miss each other so much! Tolerably calm seas and good winds and above all sun—what I wish for myself, I wish for...
Friedrich Nietzsche
![Rumi quote: "Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't..."](/pic/252830/600x316/quotation-rumi-dont-make-the-body-do-what-the-spirit-does-best-and.jpg)
![Jane Austen quote: "An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best..."](/pic/252682/600x316/quotation-jane-austen-an-interval-of-meditation-serious-and-grateful.jpg)
I believe you did not have a happy life. I believe you were cheated. I believe your best friends were loneliness and misery. I believe your busiest enemies were anger and depression. I believe joy was a game you could never play without stumbling. I believe comfort, though you craved it, was forever a stranger. I believe music had to be melancholy or not at all. I believe no trinket, no precious metal, shone so bright as your bitterness. I believe you lay down at last in your coffin none the...
Mary Oliver