Never Quotes (page 204)

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• physics
• self love
• being love

It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred, which, especially since her illness, had power to make her feel scraped, hurt in her spine; gave her physical pain, and made all pleasure in beauty, in friendship, in being well, in being loved and making her... Virginia Woolf

• disappointment
• expectation
• deciding

I decided to expect nothing from Buddy Willard. If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed. Sylvia Plath

• sometimes
• goes
• always

The thing about the sun… is that it’s always there. Like sometimes, you can’t see it, but it never really goes away. Stephenie Meyer

• lost
• imagination
• need

That which can be imagined need never be lost. Clive Barker

• my love
• lifetime
• work

But why must everything always have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a deadline, taking care of my loved ones, my gums and my credit record, voting, etc. Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty? Elizabeth Gilbert

• love
• loves
• now

Let those love now who've never loved; let those who've loved, love yet again. John Fowles

• saying
• bottom
• you

If you lose your nerve before you hit the bottom, Tyler says, you never really succeed. Chuck Palahniuk

• giving
• little
• powerful

We’re going to die and not even know. We’ll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and on. And we won’t any longer be witnesses to it. We won’t have even that little bit of power to give meaning to it in our minds. We’ll just be gone, dead, dead, dead, without ever knowing! Anne Rice

• thoughts
• she
• martyred

She would have to be a saint because that was the occupation that included everything you could know; and yet she knew she would never be a saint.... but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick. Flannery O'Connor

• simple
• understanding
• contentment

We must note the curious fact that people are not content with what is simple to understand, but go straight for the more complex problems which they will perhaps never grasp. What is simple to grasp is quite usable and useful, and can keep us occupied for a whole lifetime if it satisfies and stimulates us. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• night
• rings
• answerable

A false ring of the night bell, once answered? it can never be made right. Franz Kafka

• good
• death
• saying

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so. Robert Louis Stevenson

• die
• dead
• may

What is dead may never die, but rises again, stronger and harder. George R. R. Martin

• relationship
• she
• manly

When Glenda Jackson reveals that she has never been in a relationship with a man in which he hasn't raised his fists to her, I don't know whether this tells us more about the contemporary male or about Glenda Jackson. Auberon Waugh

• eyes
• believe
• brain

Believe it. That was the way. Never stop believing. Fool the eye, fool the brain. Terry Prachett