Deserving Quotes (page 13)

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• him
• cat
• believe

Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets. Neil Gaiman

• emotional
• hope
• art

Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We are all lost at see, washed between hope and despair, hailing something that may never come to rescue us. Catastrophe has become art; but this is no reducing process. It is freeing, enlarging, explaining. Catastrophe has become art: that is, after all, what it is for. Julian Barnes

• sunset
• star
• manly

There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• humanity
• evening
• earth

Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass. Charles Bukowski

• great
• path
• greatness

Do I not deserve an acomplish of some great purpose? ... I prefer glory to every enticement than wealth placed in my path. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

• fail
• deserves
• messiah

Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve. Michael Chabon

• comforting
• happy love
• love

If we loved Steve Aylett, really loved him in the way that he deserves, a selfless love that genuinely wanted nothing save his happiness and comfort, we'd lobotomise him. Alan Moore

• pain
• to live
• war

A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live. Savitri Devi

• trust
• time
• believe

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust. Aristotle

• gift
• gifted
• gifts

When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment. Gene Wolfe

• family time
• dead
• son

that the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son; and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year; that he had been sent to sea, because he was stupid and unmanageable on shore; that he had been very little cared for at any time by his family, though quite as much as he deserved; seldom heard of, and scarcely at all regretted... He had, in fact, though his sisters were now doing all they could for him, by calling him 'poor Richard,' been... Jane Austen

• faith
• consistency
• obscurity

His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything. Albert Camus

• she
• being love
• look in the mirror

When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all. Nicholas Sparks

• love
• kindness
• evening

Tom: If you love with kindness, even when you can't love with permanence, you'll deserve the one who's worthy along that path for you. Nora Roberts

• to live
• manly
• hard

Ridiculous man in a pair of ridiculous sneakers. Such a ridiculous man hardly deserved to live. Stephen King