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"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
— Stephen King (The Gunslinger)

tags: dark, horror, tower
166 people liked it

"Go then, there are other worlds than these."
— Stephen King (The Gunslinger)

144 people liked it

"I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I aim with my eye.

I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I shoot with my mind.

I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.
I kill with my heart."
— Stephen King (The Gunslinger)

99 people liked it

"He who has overcome his fears will truly be free."
— Aristotle

tags: fear, freedom
49 people liked it

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire."
— Aristotle

20 people liked it

"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."
— Aristotle

tags: inequality
16 people liked it

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
— Aristotle

tags: love
11 people liked it

"Good books don't give up all their secrets at once."
— Stephen King

tags: books
467 people liked it

"Books are a uniquely portable magic."
— Stephen King

87 people liked it

"Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too."
— Stephen King (It)

48 people liked it

"That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery."
— Stephen King (The Stand)

tags: god, humor
51 people liked it

"Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters."
— Stephen King (The Shining)

tags: monsters
37 people liked it

"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
— Stephen King (The Stand)

tags: society
35 people liked it

"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones."
— Stephen King

tags: horror
30 people liked it

"All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one..."
— Stephen King (The Dark Tower)

19 people liked it

"The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind."
— Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set)

tags: women
107 people liked it

"Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget."
— Robert Jordan (The Dragon Reborn)

60 people liked it

"I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile."
— Robert Jordan (The Eye of the World)

37 people liked it

"In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes"
— Robert Jordan (The Eye of the World)

tags: foolishness, war
33 people liked it

"Dovie'andi se tovya sagain!
"
— Robert Jordan

tags: fantasy
11 people liked it

"The wheel weaves as the wheel wills"
— Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set #3)

tags: wheel
10 people liked it

"Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can."
— Robert Jordan (The Eye of the World)

14 people liked it

"Death is lighter than a feather, but Duty is heavier than a mountain."
— Robert Jordan (The Eye of the World)

9 people liked it

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
3,674 people liked it

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite."
— William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

323 people liked it

"We know what we are, but not what we may be."
— William Shakespeare

tags: hamlet, identity, possibilities
262 people liked it

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

tags: greatness
2,625 people liked it

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

tags: love
2,778 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,184 people liked it

"People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true."
— Terry Goodkind (Wizard's First Rule)

84 people liked it

"If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way."
— Terry Goodkind

tags: sword, truth
39 people liked it

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
— Plato

tags: compassion, kindness
915 people liked it

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
— Plato

tags: philosophy
306 people liked it

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. "
— Plato

tags: love, poetry, song
657 people liked it

"We learn from failure, not from success!"
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

tags: dracula
47 people liked it

"I will not let you go into the unknown alone."
— Bram Stoker

10 people liked it

"Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.
-Zarek"
— Sherrilyn Kenyon (Acheron)

208 people liked it

"We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself."
— Sarah McLachlan

tags: inspirational
10 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,258 people liked it

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
10,947 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,162 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,351 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,002 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,201 people liked it

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
6,920 people liked it

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
6,394 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
6,038 people liked it

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
5,941 people liked it

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
4,902 people liked it

"One by one
my leaves fall

One by one
my tales are told

"
— Enya, singer

tags: enya, inspirational, music, writing
8 people liked it

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