Ever Quotes (page 43)

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• life
• hamlet
• eating

Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity? Charlotte Bronte

• great
• greatness
• sensations

Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet. Edgar Allan Poe

• forgiveness
• traitor
• maybe

Stealing to forgive the killing, because maybe they do out of necessity, but the traitor ever Emiliano Zapata

• die
• hand
• allowances

When you die, are you ever allowed to come back?"Only if you had your hand stamped... Charles M. Schulz

• peace
• nice
• find

That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. J. D. Salinger

• thinking you
• thinking
• loads

And don't think you can lay down the load, ever. Because you can't. I know. Margaret Mitchell

• watch
• dark
• him

Zedar was gone...As an owl, though, I was able to drift silently from tree to tree until I caught up with him...He wasn't really hard to follow, since he'd conjured up a dim, greenish light to see by --and to hold off the boogiemen. Did I ever tell you that Zedar's afraid of the dark? That adds another dimension to his present situation, doesn't it? He was bundled to the ears in furs, and he was muttering to himself as he floundered along through the snow. Zedar talks to himself a lot. He... David Eddings

• alone
• men
• mad men

Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will. Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race. What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you. Marquis de Sade

• worthwhile
• complicate
• complication

Nothing worthwhile is ever without complications. Nora Roberts

• personal
• strong
• hand

That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent. Barbara Kingsolver

• dead
• betterment
• better

Ye are better than all the ballads. That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• personality
• different
• personal

In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in one direction, turns sharply in mid-course, stalls, drifts, starts up again. Nothing is ever known, and inevitably we come to a place quite different from the one we set out for. Paul Auster

• one word
• words
• oneness

Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget... Leo Tolstoy

• feeling
• dishonour
• he

He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable. Plato

• him
• greatness
• kindness

The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. Most people had not lived -- nor could it, for that matter, be said that they had died-- through any of their terrible events. They had simply been stunned by the hammer. They passed their lives thereafter in a kind of limbo of denied and unexamined pain. The great question that faced him this morning was whether or not had had ever, really, been present at his life. James Baldwin