One S Quotes

384 One S quotes by 316 unique authors

That demon woman you were lounging with on the divan,” said Will. “Would you call her a friend, or more of a business associate?” Benedict’s… — Cassandra Clare
As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of suffering being only… — Thomas Ligotti
Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their… — Paul Auster
Let us remember, too, that greatness is not always a matter of the scale of one’s life, but of the quality of one’s life. True… — Spencer W. Kimball
The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly… — R. D. Laing
Will nodded toward Hadrian. “Look at the swords he’s carrying. A man wearing one—maybe he knows how to use it, maybe not. A man carries… — Michael J. Sullivan
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment,… — Allen Ginsberg
We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with… — Carl von Clausewitz
I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful. — Virginia Woolf
Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart. — Yukio Mishima
All [Sadie’s] previous attempts [of making a shabti (an Egyptian avatar of one’s self)] had exploded or gone haywire, terrorizing Khufu and the initiates. Last… — Rick Riordan
Count up the almonds, Count what was bitter and kept you waking, Count me in too: I sought your eye when you glanced up and… — Paul Celan
Nobody’s going to save you. No one’s going to cut you down, cut the thorns thick around you. No one’s going to storm the castle… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness… — David Mitchell
There are times when one feels liberated from one’s limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a little corner of… — Albert Einstein
And it’s not like I’ve never jacked off. I’m fifteen years old. Of course I do it. Any guy who says he doesn’t is lying.… — Michael Thomas Ford
I can’t make this decision for you…this one’s yours. I want you to know, though, that I love you. And I always will. I know… — Nicholas Sparks
Somewhere, right at the bottom of one’s own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are… — Carl Jung
A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There… — Alain de Botton
I wish this story were different. I wish it were more civilized. I wish it showed me in a better light, if not happier, than… — Margaret Atwood
Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a… — Milan Kundera
nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for Weak but detectable interaction between two neighboring universes that are otherwise not causally connected. Manifests itself in humans as a… — Charles Yu
To write is to pour one’s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one’s hand struggles and rebels, overdriven… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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