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Goodness Quotes (page 185)

In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on. May Sarton
I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used. Marsha Norman
Many are poets, but without the name; For what is Poesy but to create. From overfeeling Good or Ill; and aim. At an external life beyond our fate, And be the new Prometheus of new men, Bestowing fire from Heaven, and then, too late, Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain George Byron
H. P. Lovecraft quote: "It is good to be a cynic? it is better to be a contented cat?..."
It is good to be a cynic? it is better to be a contented cat? and it is best not to exist at all. H. P. Lovecraft
Charlaine Harris quote: "As exits go, that's a good one." It was pretty hard to have..."
As exits go, that's a good one." It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire. Charlaine Harris
Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism. Paul Brunton
Mark Twain quote: "Be good and you will be lonesome."
Be good and you will be lonesome. Mark Twain
Terry Prachett quote: "The flip side of the coin of which Good and Evil are but one..."
The flip side of the coin of which Good and Evil are but one side. Terry Prachett
This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression. The character has traits of myself. I really lost friends while writing on that story, I became ugly and unhappy and just yelled at people. The cruel thing with depression is that it's such a self-centered illness - Dostoevsky shows that pretty good in his "Notes from Underground". The depression is painful, you're sapped/consumed by yourself; the worse the... David Foster Wallace
William Golding quote: "No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always..."
No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost. William Golding
Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us. Louisa May Alcott
No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature. Edgar Rice Burroughs
I wasn’t sure anymore what made a good marriage. There had to be love, of course, but there were so many different kinds of love. And clearly, some love was more enduring than others. Janet Evanovich
How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! Arthur Conan Doyle
The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat. Edith Hamilton

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