"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more."
(JC Beckett)
This is one of my favourite quotes, mainly because I was studying Hamlet when I came across this.
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"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more."
(JC Beckett)
This is one of my favourite quotes, mainly because I was studying Hamlet when I came across this.
But here is one.
"You must not abandon the ship in a storm because you cannot control the winds."
Utopia, Sir Thomas More
I liked all of them, but mostly the last one because it is too hard to find that one.....
"everything comes to an end"
Have a nice day DarkPain
Wonderful sentiment. I always thought that is the one thing we all wait for in our lives; and hopefully, the feeling is mutual...Quote:
Originally Posted by Admin
I saw it on an old link from 2007 named "It's all Greek to me" with several wonderful quotes:nod:
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"Another thing is no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close."
:eek2: :eek: :cold:
:banana: One of my favorite authors, stories and quotes as well. I read a book with several of Benjamin Franklin's letters. There is one to a Ms. Brillion, In which he issued the same sentiment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Snowqueen
For every ill he has found its remedy save only death !( Sophocles, Antigone)
-Marilyn MonroeQuote:
"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
I love this quote because it describes me 100%.
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Originally Posted by Pollopicu
its really a lovely quote.. :)
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Earl of Beaconsfield
I can't pick a single quote. I will however paste several that I like.
"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine. " - Nikola Tesla
"I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"What doesn't kill me makes me stronger"- Friedrich Nietzsche
"The life of a man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." - Thomas Hobbes
"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." - Benjamin Franklin
"We can infer how blessed must be the life of a man whose will is silenced not for moments, as in the enjoyment of the beautiful, but for ever, indeed completely extinguished, except for the last glimmering spark that maintains the body." -- Arthur Schopenhauer [by will he is speaking of sexual desire]
"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in" -- Arthur Schopenhauer
"How nicely the ***** sensuality knows how to beg for a piece of spirit, when a piece of flesh is denied her!" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"Faith: Not wanting to know what is true." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything." - George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"It is the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. " - Aristotle
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
-President Theodore Roosevelt.
I would rather live a day as a lion than a hundred years as a dog
-Major Doug Zembiec.
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power ... the world will know peace"- I came across this quote recently... can u tell me whose it iz???
No art is possible without a dance with death. Celine
“Be Who You Are and Say What You Feel Because Those Who Mind Don't Matter and Those Who Matter Don't Mind.” Dr Suess
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings- Socrates (apparently).
All man could win in the conflict between plague and death was knowledge and memories- Albert Camus, The Plague.
Hell is other people- Sartre, No Exit (i think)
Mors Omnia Vincit;Death conquers all- from Alain de Bottons' 'Status Anxiety', i'm not sure who originally wrote it, might have been Seneca.
Books for everybody are always malodorous books: the smell of petty people clings to them- Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil.
Today it is bad, and day by day it will get worse-until the worst of all arrives- Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
“Hey, the offensive linemen are the biggest guys on the field, they're bigger than everybody else, and that's what makes them the biggest guys on the field.”--John Madden
the motto should not be: forgive one another; rather understand one another. /emma goldman
I have to add this as it is one of my favorite quotes. It was uttered by my son.
"I wish there was a cloud in the sky that never died and held all of our lives in it". February 16th, 2005. M.D.N. AGE 7
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists."
- Charles Dickens
One of my favorites - believing without seeing is the ultimate form of love.
"The only paradise is a paradise lost". Marcel Proust....what about a Sadparadise? Surely I exist!!
"The man who builds a school,, Closes a prison"
Victor Hugo
I like the whole essay but these lines are very touching and full of pathos.
"And while I stood gazing, both the children gradually grew fainter to my view, receding, and still receding till nothing at last but two mournful features were seen in the uttermost distance, which, without speech, strangely impressed upon me the effects of speech; "We are not of Alice, nor of thee, nor are we children at all. The children of Alice called Bartrum father. We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of
ages before we have existence."
Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb ( DREAM CHILDREN)
It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.- Bohumil Hrabal
That's the kind of aphorism I like. Not necessarily true, but ought to be.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ebonon
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"Don't exhort me to save time. You can't save time. You can only choose how to spend it."
Charles de Russon
I posted a couple of these in the "In Case you Become Famous Forum," but, because I love these quotes, I think I'll post a few here.
"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves." -Albert Einstein (apparently he knew more than just science).
"The day I discover why we exist is the day I won't." -IceM
"If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion." -Edmond de Goncourt.
Love these.
O lente, lente currite equis nocte
anything from lord of the rings!!
'Beauty is a war between god & the devil & the battlefield is the heart of man.'
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)
My all-time favorite quote from a writer: "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated." Mark Twain
"When all else fails, play dead."
-from-i'm-not-sure-where. Very reassuring.
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
— Anaďs Nin
Hi,
My favorite quote is:
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore
I like it because it inspires you to keep on dreaming.
MarkC
One of my favourite quotes is:-
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do-
Freya Stark
Because,it inspires me to be happy in life.
Bütün renkler aynı hızda kirleniyordu. Birinciliği beyaza verdiler. Özdemir ASAF
all colours were getting dirty at the same speed, they gave the first place to white.
be like a river in generosity and help
be like the sun in tenderness and mercy
be like the night in covering the faults of others
be like the dead in anger and nervousness
be like the earth in modesty and humility
be like the sea in tolerance
be like your appearance (image), or appear like yourself.
mevlana
'Beauty is a war between God & the Devil & the battleground is the heart of man.' ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)
Why? I don't know, it just kind of says it all. ;)
Hi everybody. It is my first post here. Could you please help me to know where this phrase is from? To be able to do everything by knowing nothing is dangerous
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein
"There are no facts, only interpretations." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"We have art to save ourselves from the truth." - also by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." - Sherlock Holmes
"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire
me being a teenager, i have to say one of my favorites is:
'I'm the president and i don't have to eat my broccoli'
-George Bush Sr.
"Spend your money foolishly and your time wisely." -Sandy Koufax-