Merely Quotes

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A silent dark...as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more... — Dean Koontz
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain… — Oscar Wilde
The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT… — Jack London
After once having made the mistake of watching television news, I had worried for a while about an asteroid hitting the earth and wiping out… — Dean Koontz
Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism… — Jonathan Franzen
I think one remains the same person throughout, merely passing, as it were, i these lapses of time from one room to another, but all… — James M. Barrie
To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies. — Oscar Wilde
The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept. — Jack London
I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my… — Irvine Welsh
Embraces do not matter; they merely indicate the will to love and may as well be followed by defeat as victory. But disregard means that… — Rebecca West
It was like time would stop, and the dancer would sort of step through some kind of portal and he wasn't doing anything different than… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I was ripe ten years ago. Now Iâ€™m merely preserved, and before long Iâ€™ll be buried back in the orchard with the other pits.â€ -Amanda… — Lisa Kleypas
It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and… — Douglas Adams
What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective. — Gary Zukav
There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's… — Lois McMaster Bujold
To live is to be someone else. Feeling is impossible if we feel today as we felt yesterday: to feel today the same thing we… — Fernando Pessoa
the work of salvation, in its full sense, is (1) about whole human beings, not merely souls; (2) about the present, not simply the future;… — N. T. Wright
If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think… — Terry Goodkind
We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later… — Milan Kundera
I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ; and what's more,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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