Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?
If you keep waiting for the right time, it may never happen. Sometimes you have to make the most of the time you have.
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
The art of leaving things alone. Especially when the seas of public or personal life are stormiest. There are whirlwinds in the affairs of men, tempests of the will, and it makes good sense to retire and wait things out in a safe harbour… Let nature or morality take its course.
You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!
Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure
It’s true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.
In the economy of life, time is the truest currency, lavishly spent by those less fortunate but carefully budgeted by the affluent. For the poor, it is a river flowing unchecked; for the wealthy, every drop counts in the ocean of thriving
There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that’s bad, I’m going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I’m doing is right. So I feel like I’m going to heaven
If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn’t rub out even half the Fuck you signs in the world. It’s impossible.
The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
I have been waiting for death all my life. I do not mean that I actively wish to die, just that I do not really want to be alive.
Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn’t know.
I wanted to figure out why I was so busy, but I couldn’t find the time to do it.
In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn’t it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
The sand in the hourglass runs from one compartment to the other, marking the passage of moments with something constant and tangible.If you watch the flowing sand, you might see time itself riding the granules.Contrary to popular opinion, time is not an old white-haired man, but a laughing child.And time sings.
We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.
But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.
Tomorrow’s not promised. You may love someone; you may have a grudge because of something that they did to you, and it was unfair, but life’s not fair. Life is very short, so clean up your grudges. Let’s not hold them.
Had I realized at the time that for Austerlitz certain moments had no beginning or end, while on the other hand his whole life had sometimes seemed to him a blank point without duration, I would probably have waited more patiently.
We are all amateurs. We don’t have enough time to be anything else.
Furthermore, in the 13th/19th century philosophy began to see itself as a complete replacement for religion as one can see in the rise of the very idea of ideology at that time, a term used widely today even by Muslims who rarely realize the essentially secular and anti-religious character of the very concept of ideology which has gradually come to replace traditional religion in so many circles.
Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle’s remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.
Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.
In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.
The kiss. Oh, the kiss. What a perfect, unnerving, luscious kiss. He made me feel unhinged . . . like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again.
The library, then, at seven-fifteen, seven-thirty, seven-forty-five of a Sunday night, cloistered with great drifts of silence and transfixed avalanche of books poised like the cuneiform stones of eternity on shelves, so high the unseen snows of time fell all year there.
Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.
Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.
Whilst the wolflets bayed, A grave was made, And then with the strokes of a silver spade, It was filled to make a mound. And for two cold days and three long nights, The father tended that holy plot; And stayed by where his wife was laid, In the grave within the ground.
The Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don’t know his past; you just know what his plans are.
The world is paralyzed, and humanity is in quarantine. It is a strange symmetry that I was born in one pandemic and will die during another.
You don’t have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you don’t have what you want now, you don’t have what you want.
YOU’RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said.That’s what being alive is all about.
One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.
Time cannot put anything in your hands until you let go off the time.
Love…no such thing.
Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that’s not love. That’s stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn’t exist.
Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.
Are you asking me to undress, Tris?’
A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. ‘Only … partially
Legacy is not the echo of your name but the light of your deeds that outlives the shadow of time.
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.
One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.