
“Life's warp of Heaven and woof of Hell.”
Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 75.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)
Source: MaddAddam
“Life's warp of Heaven and woof of Hell.”
Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 75.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)
“I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.”
“I'm just enjoying my life. I suggest you try it.”
“The people I'm stuck with in my life now aren't sucking the life out of me, they just suck.”
Source: Saving Francesca
“One in particular, whose warped will it ever was even in the upper world (hence his life ended ill) to insult misfortune and wax sour at prosperity.”
Unus ibi ante alios, cui laeva voluntas
semper et ad superos (hinc et gravis exitus aevi)
insultare malis rebusque aegrescere laetis.
Source: Thebaid, Book II, Line 16
“Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.”
Source: The Shining (1977)
“In real life, I'm just an actor. I play pretend. I tell stories.”
As quoted in USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2005-06-12-tyson-retire-talk_x.htm (2005).
Reported in The New Yorker as: “At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. Life is totally about losing everything.” http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/06/27/050627ta_talk_remnick
On himself