💬 Quotes

"I am alone in the world. The last drop of the foaming cup is mine—the last inhabitant of this desolate earth."

"Alas! I have dragged through years of solitary existence, living as a ghost among the monuments of a dead world."

"The world was hers for the reading."

"Everything struggle-filled in her life had served to make her stronger, and she was grateful for the struggle."

"People always think that happiness is a faraway thing, something complicated. Something that grows out of a struggle to get, say, money or fame. But happiness is a little thing, like a flower that grows in the cracks of the sidewalk."

"She was made of the same stuff as the tree that grew in the tenement yard. She grew in spite of everything."

"You can't be like other people. If you try to be like other people, you're not being yourself."

"There’s a lot of bitter in life, but there’s a lot of sweet, too. You just have to know how to take it."

"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."

"Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else."

"Keep a little fire in your heart and setting it hither and yon. We do not have a lot of time. So you must keep it in your heart."

"He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke."

"Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave."

"What if I said that nothing survives? What if I said that everything that has ever existed is gone?"

"On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have left me in my ignorance and I am nothing."

"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."

"If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."

"Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy."

"Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery."

"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided."