💬 Quotes

"Religion is not a collection of stories, but a language used to describe the indescribable."

"An object in motion tends to stay in motion. A man of faith, once set on a path of vengeance, does not easily stop."

"Totalitarianism has no place in a world where knowledge is shared freely."

"The truth is a terrifying thing, for it shatters the illusions we have carefully constructed to keep ourselves sane."

"It was less trouble to conform to the manners and prejudices of one's small and peculiar world than to run the risk of becoming an outsider."

"I can't love you unless I give you up."

"What is or isn't 'the thing'? New York society is an organism that survives by the rigidity of its own codes."

"The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend."

"There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the slightest desire to be free."

"It was the memory of their lost potential, and the life they might have led, that made the end bearable."

"I am afraid, replied Elinor, that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety."

"If there is any happiness to be found in this world, it is in a house like this, where there is no ceremony, no form, no restraint."

"Common sense, like conscience, is a very useful guide, but it is not always a very comfortable one."

"She was sensible that she had been betrayed into a degree of openness which was likely to be followed by repentance."

"Elinor, this eldest daughter, whose understanding was equal to her mother’s, and whose heart was better, was the only one who could govern her feelings."

"He looked at it as a man looks at the ruin of his own life."

"A man of her own sort, which might have been a relief, but she thought of Frank."

"I have been staring at the fire for a long time and my eyes are tired."

"He saw himself as a ludicrous figure, acting as a pennyboy for his aunts, a oafish schoolboy to his uncle."

"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."