“Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”
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“God is the one who always remembers those whom history has forgotten.”
“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
Variant: What I mean is... maybe it's only us...
Source: Lord of the Flies
Quoted in Dotson Rader, "I rose from the ashes" http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2008/edition_04-20-2008/1Robert_Downey_Jr, Parade Magazine (2008-04-20)
“The boy had to pay the piper, so they all stay in fear of the neighborhood sniper”
"Neighborhood Sniper", 5150: Home 4 tha Sick (1992).
1990s
“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
“We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.”
Source: Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
“We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.”
“What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.”
Twitter statement on the Manchester terrorist attack https://twitter.com/ArianaGrande/status/868164986887176192 (26 May 2017)
“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”
As quoted in Sunday Herald Sun [Melbourne, Australia] (13 January 2003)]
Variant: Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”
“Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.”
Source: Coming Up for Air, Part 3, Ch. 1
“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”