Sally > Sally's Quotes

“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
― Samuel Beckett

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”
― Samuel Beckett

“You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on.”
― Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Did you know that 'I told you so' has a brother,Jacob?" she asked cutting me off. "His name is 'Shut the hell up'.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Needing someone to love me and want me has always driven me to the brink of madness.”
― Kathryn Perez, Therapy

“I’m so very tired of being held prisoner by my own mind.”
― Kathryn Perez, Therapy

“The simplicity of living astounds me. But it’s the terror of death that devours me.”
― L.B. Simmons, The Resurrection of Aubrey Miller

“Every being in this world makes an impact on at least one person they encounter during their lifetime. You can change the course of someone’s life by just a kind word, a hateful one, or even by simply choosing not to say anything at all. Every choice you make has the potential to create a ripple effect, trickling into and affecting the lives of others.”
― L.B. Simmons, The Resurrection of Aubrey Miller

“Without heartache, there is no understanding of the true meaning of love. Without anger, passion cannot be comprehended. Without fear, there is nothing gained when overcome. And without sorrow, happiness can never be realized.”
― L.B. Simmons, The Resurrection of Aubrey Miller

“As long as you continue to travel through life in this darkness, you will never know how beautiful your light truly shines when you let yourself love and be loved. Trust me when I say, it’s a breathtaking sight to see. You burn as bright as the sun.”
― L.B. Simmons, The Resurrection of Aubrey Miller

“You’ve been silent your whole life. You were silent when we met, silent when you suffered. Silent when life kept hitting you. I was like that too, a little. But not like you. You are a stillness. And I tried to move you. It didn’t work. But that doesn’t mean you didn’t move me. I heard everything you didn’t say. I heard it so loudly that I couldn’t shut it off. Your silence, Senna, I hear it so loudly.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“Humans weren’t made to carry someone else’s weight. We can barely lift our own.”

“Maybe lifting someone else’s weight makes yours a little more bearable”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“I was sitting in a white room hating myself, until you breathed life back into me. You loved me so much that I started to love myself.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“That's why writers write—to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“People lie. They use you and they lie, all the while feeding you bullshit about being loyal and never leaving you. No one can make that promise, because life is all about seasons, and seasons change.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“I am different, not less.”
― Temple Grandin

“Today, my life is awesome.
I don’t want to think about tomorrow.
Or the day after that.
So I repeat to myself: Today, my life is awesome.”
― Kim Holden, Bright Side