“Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 150 of 313
“False hope is clung to with all one's might and main, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and it forcibly breaks through its bonds and departs. After that comes the misery of awakening, and then once again the longing to get back into the maze of the same mistakes.”
“That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.”
“I've found that the only way to make theatre that gets the audience thinking is when I feel uncomfortable making it.”
“Sometimes,” he says, sliding his arm across my shoulders, “people just want to be happy, even if it’s not real.”
“There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.”
“...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables”
“Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.”
“No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.”
“The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.”
“My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.”
“I think love is one of those things that it's only really bad because it was once good. You can't miss something that was never amazing. So, what I've learned is that even if it ends badly, it's worth it if it made you feel something, if it taught you something.”
“Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.”
“Every man is an impossibility until he is born.”
“It is defeat which educates us.”
“Nothing will supply the want of sunshine to peaches, and, to make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. The joy of the spirit indicates its strength. All healthy, things are sweet-tempered. Genius works in sport, and goodness smiles to the last.”
“When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.”
“The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.”
“What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived”
“All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.”