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Thing Quotes (page 813)

If drugs really numb your consciousness, they'd be a good thing. As it was, they slowed you down, confused you, kept you vulnerable to violent flashes of recall, and then agitated you and made you unsure of what you knew and didn't know. Anne Rice
And yet your shadow isn't following you anymore. At some point your shadow has quietly slipped away. You pretend you don't notice, but you have, you're missing your fucking shadow, though there are plenty of ways to explain it, the angle of the sun, the degree of oblivion induced by the sun beating down on hatless heads, the quantity of alcohol ingested, the movement of something like subterranean tanks of pain, the fear of more contingent things, a disease that begins to become apparent,... Roberto Bolano
…But sometimes a person begins with opinions and judgments and valid criticisms, but then things creep in that have nothing to do with forming opinions, and then it’s all over with strict logic, and what you end up with is an absurd world republic and beautiful style. Thomas Mann
Edgar Cayce quote: "In every person of whatever station look not for things to..."
In every person of whatever station look not for things to criticize, but for something you adore in your Creator. Edgar Cayce
[...] leaving for a day or two that hopeless sense of loss which makes beauty what it is: a distant lone tree against golden heavens; ripples of light on the inner curve of a bridge; a thing impossible to capture. Vladimir Nabokov
When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: ‘Anyway, it is not new. William James
Meg Cabot quote: "It's a natural progress, but still. That thing about the cow..."
It's a natural progress, but still. That thing about the cow is so stupid. Do I look like a cow to you? Meg Cabot
If you’re the girl that needs a boyfriend, and once she loses that boyfriend needs to replace it with a different boyfriend, it’s just this constant stream of boyfriends all the time. I don’t feel like I ever want to be that girl. I want to be the girl that when she falls in love, it’s a big deal and it’s a rare thing. Taylor Swift
And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.'To remit debts is to renounce our own personality. It means renouncing everything that goes to make up our ego, without any exception. It means knowing that in the ego there is nothing whatever, no psychological element, that external circumstances could not do away with. It means accepting that truth. It means being happy that things should be so. Simone Weil
Robertson Davies quote: "You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of..."
You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things! Robertson Davies
Because you have the most marvellous youth, and youth is the one thing worth having." "I don't feel that, Lord Henry." "No, you don't feel it now. Some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with its lines, and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires, you will feel it, you will feel it terribly. Now, wherever you go, you charm the world. Oscar Wilde
Terry Prachett quote: "The worst thing you can do is nothing."
The worst thing you can do is nothing. Terry Prachett
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Also, he had always had a great tolerance which seemed the..."
Also, he had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister. Ernest Hemingway
Sylvia Plath quote: "I desire the things which will destroy me in the end."
I desire the things which will destroy me in the end. Sylvia Plath
That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world. Laurell K. Hamilton

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