💬 Quotes

"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next."

"I am not telling you the truth. I am telling you a story. Everything I tell you is a lie. A man who wants to tell the truth runs the risk of dying for it, or worse, of being laughed at."

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."

"The pattern of a life is the most beautiful thing in the world, and it is a work of art that is finished only when the breath leaves the body."

"We are all of us prisoners in the solitude of our own souls; and we are all of us looking for someone who can understand our silent language."

"The only way to endure the wretchedness of life is to treat it as a game, and to play it with a lightness of heart that defies the tragedy of it all."

"He had been looking for a meaning to life, as though it were a hidden thing to be discovered, when in fact it was merely a web he had to weave himself."

"Beauty is a thing of such fleeting and terrible intensity that it serves only to remind us of the decay that waits for all things."

"The truth, I realized, was that we all have things we don't want to say, things we don't want to own, and things we don't want to admit to ourselves."

"What in me is dark / Illumine, what is low raise and support; / That to the highth of this great argument / I may assert Eternal Providence, / And justify the ways of God to men."

"For solitude sometimes is best society, / And short retirement urges sweet return."

"The world was all before them, where to choose / Their place of rest, and Providence their guide."

"O Eve, some further change awaits us nigh, / Which Heaven by many a sign hath warn'd us of."

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."

"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path."

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

"And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity."

"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"

"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want."

"The past is a bucket of ashes, a sad waste of time. It's the future that is our burden, our duty, our opportunity."