Than Quotes (page 140)

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• work
• great
• greatness

to great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives. Walter Benjamin

• city
• him
• alone

The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart....To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know him; to wander, like his own legend, across the earth--it seemed to him there could be no better thing than that. Thomas Wolfe

• waiting
• mind
• learning

To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere." "To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. Michel de Montaigne

• evening
• manly
• even

...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread. Victor Hugo

• life
• ventures
• venture

Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be. Malcolm Forbes

• words
• little
• haves and have nots

I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more. Vladimir Nabokov

• more
• forgotten
• knowing

i've forgotten more than you'll ever know Bob Dylan

• movie
• hero
• heroines

I never go to movies where the hero's tits are bigger than the heroine's. Groucho Marx

• pain
• running
• witch

Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful. Terry Prachett

• disappointment
• willing
• disappoint

I will try to disappoint youbetter than anyone ever has. Stephen Dunn

• alone
• together
• togetherness

We are stronger together than we are alone. Walter Payton

• little
• look
• death

Take an old man's word; there's nothing worse than a muddle in all the world. It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror - on the things that I might have avoided. We can help one another but little. I used to think I could teach young people the whole of life, but I know better now, and all my teaching of George has come down to this: beware of muddle. E. M. Forster

• men
• intelligent
• energy

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess. Elbert Hubbard

• old age
• powerful
• moments

Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.] Nathaniel Hawthorne

• feeling
• she
• bitter

Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade. J. M. Barrie