Buts Quotes (page 43)

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• to live
• love
• sunlight

But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day? Elizabeth Gilbert

• dream
• soft
• treading

But I being poor have only my dreams. I have laid my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. William Butler Yeats

• wisdom
• choose
• mind

But, for the point of wisdom, I would choose / To know the mind that stirs between the wings / Of bees... George Eliot

• vampire
• vampires
• longer

But Felix was no longer Felix. He was a vampire motherfucker. Guillermo del Toro

• also
• hunted
• hunters

But the hunter was also the hunted, For many of my arrows left my bow only to seek my own breast... Khalil Gibran

• love
• pain
• know how

But if you've ever felt love, you'll know how painful it is to suffer for love. Paulo Coelho

• night
• star
• bear

But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know that they all were? J. K. Rowling

• betrayal
• gift
• past

But I am gifted, even in November. Rawest of seasons, with so huge a sense. Of her nakedly worn magnificence. I forget cruelty and past betrayal, Careless of where the next bright bolt may fall. Robert Graves

• alone
• god
• evening

But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! Herman Melville

• god
• thinking
• sometimes

But by God sometimes you have to be able to think about the unthinkable! Ursula K. Le Guin

• god
• stills
• stillness

But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another. Michael Cunningham

• evil
• snow
• real

But then I have long since grown accustomed to the thought that what we call dreams is semi-reality, the promise of reality, a foreglimpse and a whiff of it; that is they contain, in a very vague, diluted state, more genuine reality than our vaunted waking life which, in its turn, is semi-sleep, an evil drowsiness into which penetrate in grotesque disguise the sounds and sights of the real world, flowing beyond the periphery of the mind—as when you hear during sleep a dreadful insidious tale... Vladimir Nabokov

• die
• tomorrow
• living

But live while you live, tomorrow you die... Leo Tolstoy

• hell
• quickly
• quick

...but quiet to quick bosoms is a hell. George Byron

• music
• space
• exists

...but music only exists because the pauses exist, and sentences only exist because the blank spaces exist. Paulo Coelho