Endless Quotes
1324 quotes by 977 authors
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That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests…
— J. G. Ballard
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Enemies are somewhere else, as the fighting is almost always “over there,†with Islamic fundamentalism now replacing Russian and Chinese communism as the implacable, furtive…
— Susan Sontag
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Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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All these tears shed in the world, where do they go? If one could capture all of them, they could water the parched. Then perhaps…
— Thrity Umrigar
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A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our dreams, our blunders,…
— Tim O'Brien
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It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would be no history.…
— Gregory David Roberts
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These are the days in which a true leader wants to live. These are days when opportunities to change lives and even destinies are nearly…
— Sheri L. Dew
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while time, the endless idiot, runs screaming around the world
— Carson McCullers
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We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to…
— Charles Frazier
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As each wave of technology is released. It must be accompanied by a demand for new skills, new language. Consumers must constantly update their ways…
— Richard Kadrey
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Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to…
— William Blake
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I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more…
— Amy Tan
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There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the difference between the…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in…
— Gary Snyder
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You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have…
— Sebastian Horsley
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Yet suppose further. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met at a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. And within it, a stairway, perhaps…
— Stephen King
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The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the…
— Julio Cortazar
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A woman's love is quick to turn into a passion for revenge--an obsession that becomes an endless river of blood, flowing on from generation to…
— Fumiko Enchi
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