Buts Quotes (page 101)

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• men
• end
• book

But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before. Henry David Thoreau

• fall
• thoughts
• die

but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of how it could be, a step from an almost certain fatal cliffside fall—falling humiliatingly and helplessly, he thought; on and on, with no one even to witness it. Here there existed no one to record his or anyone else's degradation, and any courage or pride which might manifest itself here at the end would go unmarked: the dead stones, the dust-stricken weeds dry... Philip K. Dick

• laying
• wives
• lay

but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives. Homer

• invited
• inviting
• invites

But you invite ..? Frank Herbert

• boys
• sad
• pain

But perhaps these are the very hours during which solitude grows; for its growing is painful as the growing of boys and sad as the beginning of spring. Rainer Maria Rilke

• god
• smart
• wellness

But smart has to have a depth as well as a length. Some smart brushes over a problem. And some smart grinds exceeding slow, like the mills of God, and it grinds fine, and when it comes up with an answer, it has been tested. Terry Prachett

• hurt
• love
• being love

But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved. Mitch Albom

• rain
• cover
• book

But it rained all the time, fog covered the fields, and by then he was reading Tolstoy. There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things. A Confession was a book like that. Jeffrey Eugenides

• imagination
• real
• kindness

But real life is only one kind of life—there is also the life of the imagination. E. B. White

• wholeness
• speaking
• been

But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole. Kate DiCamillo

• ignorance
• powerful
• respect

But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power? Dan Brown

• trust
• friend
• true friendship

But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• look
• words
• ifs

But in my head I can hear Haymitch's smug, if slightly exasperated, words: "Yes, that's what I'm looking for, sweetheart. Suzanne Collins

• mind power
• mindfulness
• mind

...but there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power... Jane Austen

• eyes
• school
• snow

But I don't know how I'll ever get a college degree and rise in the world with no high school diploma and eyes like piss holes in the snow, as everyone tells me. Frank McCourt