Quotes

Franz Kafka photo
E.E. Cummings photo

“exists no miracle mightier than this:to feel”

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

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95 poems (1958)

Flannery O’Connor photo

“It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.”

Source: Wise Blood

Ella Wheeler Wilcox photo
Michel De Montaigne photo

“There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Jean Paul Sartre photo

“Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
Raymond Chandler photo

“Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.”

Source: The Big Sleep

Patrick Rothfuss photo

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)

Virginia Woolf photo

“It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.”

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer

Variant: It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality
Source: The Death of the Moth and Other Essays

Greg Behrendt photo
John Piper photo
Suzanne Collins photo

“I'm more than just a piece in their Games.”

Source: The Hunger Games

Niccolo Machiavelli photo

“it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.”

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author

Source: The Letters of Machiavelli

“People are more than just the way they look.”

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

Gabriel García Márquez photo
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. photo
Robert M. Pirsig photo

“Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive”

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Mark Twain photo