Debbie > Debbie's Quotes

“What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.”
― Edith Wharton

“She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

“The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you.”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“We must act out passion before we can feel it.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Existence is an imperfection.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
― Théophile Gautier

“LOVE is a friendship set to music”
― E. Joseph Cossman

“Music fills the infinite between two souls”
― Rabindranath Tagore