Than Quotes (page 461)

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• life
• art
• people

The function of art is to make people like life more than they do. Kurt Vonnegut

• thinking
• perfect
• people

~Do you like him much? ~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much? He is full of faults. ~Is he? ~All boys are. ~More than girls? ~Very likely. Wise people say it is folly to think anyboy perfect, and as to likes and diskiles, we should be friendly to all, and worship none. Charlotte Bronte

• manly
• nothing
• womanly

There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back - unless it is a woman who won't. L. M. Montgomery

• love
• expectation
• surprise

I like you both! And that's better than loving you, for that's expected, you know. But liking you, what a curious surprise. Anne Rice

• imagination
• pioneer
• idea

A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves. Willa Cather

• wanting
• decide
• afraid

Decide that you want it more than you're afraid of it Bill Cosby

• pain
• thoughts
• little

I thought to myself: 'Is the pain a little less than when I went away?' and tried to persuade myself that it was so. Graham Greene

• reading
• sea
• forest

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like... Franz Kafka

• regret
• experience
• chance

My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a lifetime, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives. Haruki Murakami

• funny
• world
• unhappy

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you tha? Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more. Samuel Beckett

• fall
• forever
• manly

What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering? Cormac McCarthy

• world
• dullness
• how

How shall I abide. In this dull world, which in thy absence is. No better than a sty? William Shakespeare

• good
• bridge
• swimming

She had to reach. She had to want it more than she’d ever wanted anything. She had to grab like a drowning girl for every good thing that came her way and she had to swim like fuck away from every bad thing. She had to count the years and let them roll by, to grow up and then run as far as she could in the direction of her best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by her own desire to heal. Cheryl Strayed

• happy
• people
• acceptance

Happiness is a hard master--particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestionably, than truth. Aldous Huxley

• time
• confused
• timely

I spend more time being confused than not? I answered. Haruki Murakami