Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[BenG]

“I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there's only one truth and that is that there is no truth... No truth behind all truths is what I and this church preach! Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”

“Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.”

“It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.”

― Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

[covingtoncat73]

"Apparently, one symptom of Nitrous overdose is abuse of exclamation points." ~Caesar's Last Breath

[covingtoncat73]

"Watt called patent infringers 'imps of Satan.'" ~Caesar's Last Breath

[bfisher]

Originally Posted by issybird

"Sooner or later...one has to take sides. If one is to remain human."
— Graham Greene, The Quiet American

[bfisher]

Originally Posted by kennyc

“Philosophy is no help at all, and offers absolutely no answers. So I turned to poetry and literature, where I found no answers either, but states of mind analogous to my own.”
- E. M. Cioran

[bfisher]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

"Apparently, one symptom of Nitrous overdose is abuse of exclamation points." ~Caesar's Last Breath

[bfisher]

“if they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”
- Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

[astrangerhere]

In worshipping [sic] their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.

C.J. Sansom | Dissolution

[covingtoncat73]

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

[bfisher]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

[AlexBell]

'I should think not!' cried Bazarov. 'A man's capable of understanding anything—how the aether vibrates, and what's going on in the sun—but how any other man can blow his nose differently from him, that he's incapable of understanding.'

Bazarov, in Fathers and Children, by Ivan Turgenev

[issybird]

"I will not say that I did not know any town could be so ugly as Gibraltar; to say that would be to deny many bitter visits in the past to Colwyn Bay, Manchester, and Stratford-on-Avon; but I will say that I had forgotten much, and that Gibraltar was a shock, and sudden sharp reminder of what I was returning to."

Evelyn Waugh, Labels

[kennyc]

"For the first time in 4 billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of wind in the night reeds."
- Loren Eiseley
(from The Dream Animal, The Immense Journey)

[bfisher]

Originally Posted by issybird

"I will not say that I did not know any town could be so ugly as Gibraltar; to say that would be to deny many bitter visits in the past to Colwyn Bay, Manchester, and Stratford-on-Avon; but I will say that I had forgotten much, and that Gibraltar was a shock, and sudden sharp reminder of what I was returning to."

Evelyn Waugh, Labels

Waugh must have been a joy as a traveling companion

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by bfisher

Waugh must have been a joy as a traveling companion

LOL!