“Worse even
than your maddening
song, your silence." -”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Collected Poems
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“Then I choose to drown. In hope. Rather than float into nothing.”
Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock
Source: Finnikin of the Rock
“Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.”
Louisa May Alcott A Long Fatal Love Chase
Source: A Long Fatal Love Chase
“You know more than you think you do.”
Benjamin Spock (1903–1998) American pediatrician and author of Baby and Child Care
First sentence. This is printed beneath the heading "Trust Yourself" , and thus is often quoted as "Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. "
Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care (1945)
“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!”
Lear, Act I, scene iv.
Source: King Lear (1605–6)
“Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.”
Laurell K. Hamilton book Obsidian Butterfly
Source: Obsidian Butterfly
“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
This is only a slightly misquoted version of "Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them", written by Frank Lloyd Wright in the magazine Architectural Record in March 1908.
Misattributed
“People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
“Could any Hell be more horrible than now, and real?”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
“Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra
“It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.”
Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist
“living a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear.”
Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.”
Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American writer
“Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be smarter than them.”
Elvis Presley (1935–1977) American singer and actor
Variant: Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.
“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Variant: There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.