We Cannot Quotes
2295 quotes by 1491 authors
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No story has a beginning, and no story has an end. Beginnings and endings may be conceived to serve a purpose, to serve a momentary…
— CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
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Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in…
— Madeline Miller
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We all dream of things we cannot have.
— George R. R. Martin
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if…
— Galileo Galilei
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
— Alan Watts
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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives…
— Timothy Keller
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God certainly knows of some happiness for us which He is going to bring out of the trouble, only we must have patience and not…
— Johanna Spyri
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The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are…
— Richard Paul Evans
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We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the…
— Gabriela Mistral
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We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.
— Erin Morgenstern
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Ghosts! […] I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that…
— Henrik Ibsen
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We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.
— Brené Brown
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We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.
— Brené Brown
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In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.…
— Alan Lightman
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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there…
— Alain de Botton
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Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Life is always uncertain,'he said with a shrug. 'We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.
— Susanna Kearsley
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There are stories that are true, in which each individual's tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we have…
— Neil Gaiman
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That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.
— Peter Rollins
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That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why I will never lose you...." ......... "I will…
— Paulo Coelho
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