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“There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.”
Pat Conroy (1945–2016) American novelist
Source: My Losing Season: A Memoir
“I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.”
Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author
Source: I Am the Messenger
“Sometimes questions are more important than answers.”
Nancy Willard (1936–2017) American writer
“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
le mystère de l'amour est plus grand que le mystère de la mort.
Source: Salomé (1893)
“Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) British writer
Source: Pericles and Aspasia
“It's better to burn out than to fade away.”
Neil Young (1945) Canadian singer-songwriter
Misattributed
“A woman’s eyes cut deeper than a knife.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Two Rivers saying
(15 October 1994)
“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
John Milton book Paradise Lost
Variant: Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
Source: Paradise Lost
“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.”
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) British economist
Not attributed to Keynes until after his death. The original quote comes from Carveth Read and is: <br class="br">It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong. <br class="br">Logic, deductive and inductive (1898), p. 351 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18440/18440-h/18440-h.htm#Page_351 <br class="br">Misattributed
“Life is heavier than the weight of all things.”
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer
“Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
Source: Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition
“Women are much more honourable than men.”
Martin Firrell (1963) British artist and activist
quoting April Ashley
"Complete Hero" (2009)
“Nothing is more unfathomable than a woman's superficiality.”
Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)