“Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.”
George Eliot book Adam Bede
Source: Adam Bede (1859)
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“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Source: Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Annotations - 1841-1844
“You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.”
Fannie Flagg book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Variant: You know, a heart can be broken, but it still keeps a-beating just the same.
Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
“Sometimes there is not always a cure.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.”
Judy Blume (1938) American children's writer
“Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.”
David Levithan book Love Is the Higher Law
Source: Love Is the Higher Law
“Seeming and being are not one and the same.”
Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist
Source: P.S. I Love You
“Woke up this morning afraid I was gonna live.”
Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation
Source: Prozac Nation
“Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.”
Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
“the purpose of life is the life of purpose”
Robin S. Sharma book The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
Source: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
“It's a wonderful life if you can find it.”
Nick Cave (1957) Australian musician
Source: Complete Lyrics
“It’s about understanding! Understanding the world!”
Peter Higgs (1929) British physicist
Explaining what led him to study theoretical physics, as quoted by Ian Sample, in The god of small things http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/nov/17/sciencenews.particlephysics, The Guardian, Saturday 17 November 2007.
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
“It's not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
Frequently attributed to Nin, but without cited source in her work (possibly due to a quotation in Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions (2000) by Dan Millman that attributed the quote to Nin without source).
In March 2013, a former Director of Public Relations at John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, Elizabeth Appell, claimed she had authored the quote in 1979 for an inspirational header on a class schedule: http://anaisninblog.skybluepress.com/2013/03/who-wrote-risk-is-the-mystery-solved/
Disputed
Variant: The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
“There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.”
Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright