Nigel Smith > Nigel's Quotes

“Be the kind of woman who, when your feet hit the floor each morning, the devil says "Oh, no! She's up.”
― Joanne Clancy

“It's when you stop planning every last detail that you discover the fun in life.”
― Joanne Clancy, The Wedding Day

“I read somewhere once that getting lost is the best way to find yourself.”
― Joanne Clancy, The Wedding Day

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."

(Little Gidding)”
― T.S. Eliot

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Late Fragment

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.”
― Raymond Carver, A New Path to the Waterfall