“Life isn't nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion.”
Kurt Cobain book Journals
Source: Journals
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“Life isn't nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion.”
Kurt Cobain book Journals
Source: Journals
“The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day.”
Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer
Source: The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“It isn't that we do what we want. It's that we're allowed to want at all.”
Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.”
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: The Darkest Night
“We… sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.”
Scott Hahn (1957) American theologian
Source: Lord, Have Mercy: The Healing Power of Confession
Bram van Velde (1895–1981) Dutch painter
11 August 1972; p. 90
1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)
“That's what we all want, isn't it? Power without price.”
Kelley Armstrong book The Summoning
Source: The Summoning
Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist
Interview by Hugh Gusterson, November 2000 https://web.archive.org/web/20051210055017/http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/2002----.pdf. <br class="br">Quotes 2000s, 2000
“Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind