Lin > Lin's Quotes

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

“That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality–your soul, if you will–is as bright and shining as any that has ever been....Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly.”
― George Saunders

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

“You are what what you eat eats.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.”
― Emily Murphy

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“There is no such thing as a “war hero”, because there is nothing about war that is heroic.”
― Michelle Templet