“People who pray stand receptive before the world. They no longer grab but caress, they no longer bite but kiss, they no longer examine but admire.”
Encounters with Merton
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Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: A Wallflower Christmas
“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
Source: The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. XI.
Giovanni Boccaccio book The Decameron
Essere la natura de' motti cotale, che essi come la pecora morde deono cosi mordere l'uditore, e non come 'l cane: percio che, se come cane mordesse il motto, non sarebbe motto, ma villania.
Sixth Day, Third Story
The Decameron (c. 1350)
“This is what divorce is: Taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.”
Zadie Smith book White Teeth
Source: White Teeth (2000)
“There are very few people who are not ashamed to be loved when they no longer do.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Il n'y a guère de gens qui ne soient honteux de s'être aimés, quand ils ne s'aiment plus.
Variant translation: There are very few people who are not ashamed to have loved when they no longer do.
Maxim 71.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“I can't watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.”
Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian
