Ruby Hofeling > Ruby's Quotes

“Is deviation from the locally approved norms always and everywhere to be taken as disease?”
― Bernard Wolfe, Limbo

“It wasn't like she was lonely and in fact – she had understood it all in every way except with her brain. Now she knew that she knew.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“Us going to have a cup of coffee. Then maybe it all won't seem so bad.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“in her heart it didn't give her near the same feeling that music did. Nothing was really as good as music.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

“I wanted to reject it all because I was sick of being perfect. I was so bored with normality and dreams of poster boys and tabloid covers.”
― J. Merridew, Teenage Idol

“Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don't think it's any of that — it's helpless ... it's absence of control — and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... and anger doesn't provide any of that — I have no use for it whatsoever."

[Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.]”
― Toni Morrison

“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.”
― Leonora Carrington

“She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.”
― Roman Payne

“What I like doing best is Nothing."

"How do you do Nothing," asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time.

"Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say, 'Oh, Nothing,' and then you go and do it.

It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."

"Oh!" said Pooh.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“When he called she tried not to break down, but voice so often betrays emotion and her's wept, "He looked happy, even if I had to see his sweet little face from far away. I want him to be happy...even if his happiness is not with me."

"That's love," he said.

"Love," she repeated. "We love because we can lose."

There is pain when we have to step away and some may say "You don't care," but little do they know, we cared enough to do so...”
― Donna Lynn Hope