Stronger than pain quotes (page 185) | Quotes of famous people

“Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.”

Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer

Source: Raven's Shadow

“Missing you is worse than Pittsburgh.”

Salvador Plascencia The People of Paper

Source: The People of Paper

“Reading is more important than writing.”

Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) Chilean author

Source: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

“There is no greater glory than to die for love.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Variant: There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“Lonely was much better than alone.”

Toni Morrison book The Bluest Eye

Source: The Bluest Eye

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”

George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman

Source: 1900s, Man and Superman (1903), p. 23

“Love is the whole and more than all.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Source: 100 Selected Poems

“Curiosity is more important than knowledge.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Variant: Imagination is more imortant than Knowledge

“Genius lasts longer than beauty”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Silence is more eloquent than words.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

“with me, it is 'better never than late”

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938) Kenyan writer

“I'd rather be alone than unhappy”

Whitney Houston (1963–2012) American singer, actress, model, and record producer

“There is no greater power on this earth than story.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

“Death is sometimes kinder than Love.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

“You are you that is truer than true”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

“The future is no more uncertain than the present.”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

“There are some remedies worse than disease.”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

Source: Unbelievable

“The universe is wider than our views of it.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Source: Walden & Civil Disobedience

“Love is a better master than duty.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“Silence is better than unmeaning words.”

Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher

As quoted in Encyclopaedia Americana (1832) Vol. X, p. 445 edited by Francis Lieber, E. Wigglesworth, and Thomas Gamaliel Bradford

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