Thing Quotes (page 302)

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• personality
• destiny
• personal

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny. C. S. Lewis

• bible
• god
• house

So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower... Joseph Heller

• beautiful
• beauty
• together

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. Carl Sagan

• feeling
• thinking
• imagination

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there? L. M. Montgomery

• book
• learning
• learned

Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn. Huston Smith

• god
• bad
• woman

He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly. George Carlin

• love
• back
• all things

My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover. ~ Falsely yours Charles Bukowski

• time
• sleep
• forever

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten. H. Rider Haggard

• eyes
• him
• sorry

It's unfair."As a rule, life is unfair," I said. Yeah, but I think I did say some awful things."To Dick?"Yeah."I pulled the car over to the shoulder of the road and turned off the ignition. "That's just stupid, that kind of thinking," I said, nailing her with my eyes. "Instead of regretting what you did, you could have treated him decently from the beginning. You could've tried to be fair. But you didn't. You don't even have the right to be sorry. Haruki Murakami

• wonder
• death
• personal

There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love becomes mechanical and death just a scene to be shunned? There is no absolute knowledge to be gained from either. Just another ride on the merry-go-round, another blurred scene of faces smiling and faces grieved. Clive Barker

• love
• single
• morning love

Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning. A. Whitney Brown

• real life
• powerful
• boys

I made a boy's mistake, common enough, of thinking that real life was knowing many things and many people, living dangerously in faraway places, crossing the sea, or starting a power company on the Columbia River, a steamship line in Bolivia. Mark Helprin

• expectation
• thoughts
• writing

It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought. Don DeLillo

• mother
• thoughts
• words

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before. W. H. Auden

• funny
• lady
• picked

Ladies pick funny things to be proud of. Harper Lee