A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert FrostI like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPeople can cry much easier than they can change.
James BaldwinIt’s not possible to stop love.
Alice WalkerYou do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz KafkaJealousy is just love and hate at the same time.
DrakeGrief is the price we pay for love.
Queen Elizabeth IITears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
Hosea BallouUpon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIn time we hate that which we often fear.
William ShakespeareI think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar WildeBy the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinI loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.
Angelina JolieEvery time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.
Bob MarleyNothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTheir mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.
Margaret AtwoodA man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.
Marilyn MonroeThe best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
George Bernard ShawI have wondered about time all my life.
Stephen HawkingI can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
Virginia WoolfWe do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
Friedrich NietzscheTo walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George OrwellI exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.
Joe BidenYou tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.
Pope FrancisThroughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.
Steve JobsI believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.
Terry PratchettTo insult someone we call him ‚bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, ‚human‘ might be the greater insult.
Isaac AsimovIf my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
Audrey HepburnSweet is the memory of past troubles.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI’m not ashamed to say I fear something.
DJ KhaledI can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.
Taylor SwiftThinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Henry FordMy father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.
Christopher HitchensMyth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‚real‘ world.
J. R. R. TolkienIt is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
Fyodor DostoevskyIt is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
Henry David ThoreauComfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
Billy GrahamIt is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
Abraham LincolnI imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James BaldwinWhen you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Khalil GibranWonder is the basis of worship.
Thomas CarlyleOnly when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.
Warren BuffettI’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘
Billie EilishThe loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
Maya AngelouOne can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
George OrwellI never fall in love.
Karl LagerfeldWhen you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
William Makepeace ThackerayFirst love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard ShawPeople are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
James BaldwinPeople like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.
Taylor SwiftWhen we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.
Taylor SwiftTo be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
Khalil GibranA minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.
John C. MaxwellThe best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
Helen KellerIn ‚Changeling,‘ I tried to show something you’d never see nowadays – a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.
Clint EastwoodHumanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CummingsThere are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
ConfuciusThe rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
Henry David ThoreauWhen all is said and done, more is said than done.
Lou HoltzI made my fair share of mistakes.
Arnold Schwarzenegger