Everybody's got something to tell you. And most people have told me to do the obvious thing as far as my career… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The abyss and the light of the world, Time's need and the craving for eternity, Vision, event, and poetry: Was and is… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
“Let me be strong, for to be anything else is to languish in the abyss of compromise and to descend to places… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“In Buddhist writings, mention is often made of “the abyss of birth." An abyss indeed, a gulf into which we do not… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“He looks up and the loss in his Noise is so great it feels like i'm standing on the edge of an… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul,… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
“Boredom in the midst of paradise generated our first ancestor’s appetite for the abyss which has won us this procession of centuries… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There comes a time when a man finds himself in front of a dark uncrossable abyss, which he himself has spent years… — Ivo Andric Copy Share Image
I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life,… — Camille Claudel Copy Share Image
“Every puff was like sucking in the abyss, yet he inhaled until his lungs filled with toxic smoke that clouded his thoughts… — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small! — James Blish Copy Share Image
The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
I choose to believe that we are addicted to the rush of being offended, the idea of it, rather than believing we… — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
I founded Eventbrite when I was 25 and had exactly five professional years under my belt. Perspective was lacking; idealistic views were… — Julia Hartz Copy Share Image
I've been in contact with Marshal Badoglio. We agree that Italy must be saved from the abyss toward which Fascism is driving… — Ugo Cavallero Copy Share Image
You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I solemnly prophesy that this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It was as if some magnetic repulsion, which before had kept our two carriages from meeting and passing, had now been reversed,… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
And indeed when we are no longer in love with women whom we meet after many years, is there not the abyss… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
“...we are of a broad, Karamazovian nature--and this is what I am driving at--capable of containing all possible opposites and of contemplating… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
It was a sunny day, I was carrying a child in a white dress to be christened. The path to the church… — Sophie Scholl Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when I was sitting in the Crimson Cabaret on a rainy night, I thought of myself as occupying a waiting room… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
The things of God are of great import; and time, and experience,and careful, and ponderous, and solemn thoughts can only find them… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image