Erin > Erin's Quotes

“For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.”
― Xenophanes

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
― walt whitman

“Even a broken clock is right twice a day.”
― Stephen Hunt, The Court of the Air

“Youth is wasted on the young.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.”
― Frank A. Clark

“The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.”
― Poppy Z. Brite

“If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.”
― Victor Cousin, Œuvres de Victor Cousin: Introduction L'Histoire de La Philosophie. Cours de L'Histoire de La Philosophie. Cours de Philosophie Sur Le Fondemen

“I know how people are with their habits of mind... as a husband quits a wife, leaving her with her naked body curled around the emptied-out mine of her womb. I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

“It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.”
― Jean Cocteau

“Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin,
That all with one consent praise new-born gauds,
Though they are made and moulded of things past,
And give to dust that is a little gilt
More laud than gilt o'er-dusted.
The present eye praises the present object.”
― William Shakespeare

“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”
― Stephen Roberts

“What is to give light must endure burning.”
― Victor Frankl

“Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.”
― Charlie Kaufman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script

“Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

“Most of the miseries of the world were caused by wars. And, when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were about. ”
― John Limon

“Most truth's are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.”
― Edward R. Murrow

“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
― H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

“You get what everyone else gets.. you get a lifetime”
― Dave Henderson

“Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.”
― Iris Murdoch

“If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to meet it.”
― Jonathan Winters

“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die.”
― John Donne

“The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.”
― Carol Matthau

“We increase our suffering through our attempts to avoid it”
― Miriam Greenspan

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.”
― John Updike, Self-Consciousness