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May Quotes (page 233)

I don't give a damn unless I'm fond of a person; but I'd sacrifice my life for those I am fond of; the rest I'd throttle if they stood in my way... And you may not believe me but if I still set a value on life it is only because I still hope one day to meet such a heavenly creature who will regenarate me, purify me and elevate me. But you don't understand that. Leo Tolstoy
He yawned; he had finished the day, and he had also finished with his youth. Various tried and proved rules of conduct had already discreetly offered him their services: disillusioned epicureanism, smiling tolerance, resignation, flat seriousness, stoicism--all the aids whereby a man may savor, minute by minute, like a connoisseur, the failure of a life... 'I have attained the age of reason. Jean-Paul Sartre
C. S. Lewis quote: "And after all, our mythology may be much nearer to literal..."
And after all, our mythology may be much nearer to literal truth than we suppose. C. S. Lewis
Look at it this way: there are many here among us for whom the life force is best represented by the livid twitching of one tortured nerve, or even a full-scale anxiety attack. I do not subscribe to this point of view 100%, but I understand it, have lived it. Thus the shriek, the caterwaul, the chainsaw gnarlgnashing, the yowl and the whizz that decapitates may be reheard by the adventurous or emotionally damaged as mellifluous bursts of unarguable affirmation. Lester Bangs
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be."
Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be. Arthur Schopenhauer
I have to live, perhaps, till seventy years. As far as I know, I have good health. Half a century of existence may lie before me. How am I to occupy it? What am I to do to fill the interval of time which spreads between me and the grave? Charlotte Bronte
Whenever I hear people talking about "liberal ideas," I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tribe follows tribe, andnation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order ofnature, and regret is useless. Your time of decay may be distant, butit will surely come, for even the White Man ... cannot be exempt from the common destiny. Chief Seattle
A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears and hours ache with songs unsung.' It says, 'Come to me across the worn-out track of age, through the gates of death. For dreams fade, hopes fail, the fathered fruits of the year decay, but I am the eternal truth, and you shall meet me again and again in your voyage of life from shore to shore. Rabindranath Tagore
Walter Kaufmann quote: "Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help..."
Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help us on what we shouldn't believe. Walter Kaufmann
Then it is your opinion…that a man should never-“ -Invest in portable property in a friend?”… “Certainly he should not. Unless he wants to get rid of the friend- and then it becomes a question how much portable property it may be worth to get rid of him. Charles Dickens
Thomas Hobbes quote: "A man's conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and,..."
A man's conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous Thomas Hobbes
Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all. Meg Cabot
Why look'e, young gentleman," said Toby, "when a man keeps himself so very ex-clusive as I have done, and by that means has a snug house over his head with nobody a-prying and smelling about it, it's rather a starling thing to have the honour of a wisit from a young gentleman (however respectable and pleasant a person he may be to play cards with at conweniency) circumstanced as you are. Charles Dickens
Edmund Spenser quote: "For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought."
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought. Edmund Spenser

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