💬 Quotes

"Facts are the enemy of truth."

"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while."

"My father did his best to get work but he was a man who couldn't keep a job because he had the thirst and the dignity and the sorrow all mixed up in his head."

"It’s a great thing to be a child of God, but it’s a miserable thing to be a child of Limerick."

"I’m not a child anymore. I’m a man. I have a job. I have money. I’m going to America."

"The hunger is always there, and it’s a great thing to be able to eat a piece of bread and jam and feel like a king."

"You can be poor, you can be hungry, and you can be cold, but if you have a sense of humor, you can survive anything."

"The mistakes of the past are like the seeds of the future—they grow in the soil we prepare for them."

"To live is to be marked. Living is a process of accumulation, shedding skins, dying each day to be born again."

"You can’t just walk into a jungle and tell it what to be. You have to listen to what it already is."

"Protecting someone is not the same thing as lying to them."

"The death of a child is a terrible thing, but it is not the end of the world. It is the end of that world."

"Imagine a ruin so perfect it doesn't require a story to explain it. It simply is, and that is enough."

"We are the makers of our own history, but we are also the prisoners of it."

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."

"True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?"

"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"

"I was never really insane, except upon occasions when my heart was touched."

"There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion."