Quotes about evening page 24
“Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Elena Ferrante (1943) Italian writer
Source: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: The Darkest Kiss
Norbert Wiener book God & Golem, Inc.
Source: God & Golem, Inc. (1964), p. 69
Source: The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society
Context: [T]he future offers very little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence. The world of the future will be an ever more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.
“People could not get enough of what they had lost, even if they no longer wanted it.”
Meg Wolitzer book The Interestings
Source: The Interestings
“Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.”
Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle
Source: I Capture the Castle
Barbara De Angelis (1951) American psychologist
From Are You the One for Me? (1992)
Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover at Last
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”
Eric Roth (1945) American screenwriter
Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
“Speak your mind even if your voice shakes.”
Maggie Kuhn (1905–1995) American activist
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist
Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“I think her flaws make me love her even more. She's not perfect, but she's perfect to me”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Source: Between the Lines
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
The monster to Robert Walton
Source: Frankenstein (1818)
Context: I was nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion. But now crime has degraded me beneath the meanest animal. No guilt, no mischief, no malignity, no misery, can be found comparable to mine. When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.
Context: I seek not a fellow feeling in my misery. No sympathy may I ever find. When I first sought it, it was the love of virtue, the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed, that I wished to be participated. But now that virtue has become to me a shadow, and that happiness and affection are turned into bitter and loathing despair, in what should I seek for sympathy? I am content to suffer alone while my sufferings shall endure; when I die, I am well satisfied that abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory. Once my fancy was soothed with dreams of virtue, of fame, and of enjoyment. Once I falsely hoped to meet with beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding. I was nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion. But now crime has degraded me beneath the meanest animal. No guilt, no mischief, no malignity, no misery, can be found comparable to mine. When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.
“Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.”
Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants
Source: Water for Elephants
“It's nice to have options even if you can't take them.”
Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever
Source: The Truth About Forever
Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
Source: The Woman Destroyed
“Even the best thief in the world can't steal time.”
Ally Carter book Heist Society
Source: Heist Society
“It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.”
Sarah Dessen book Dreamland
Source: Dreamland (2000)
“Some pain shouldn't be wished away so easily. It had to be dealt with, even embraced.”
Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus
Source: The Blood of Olympus
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince
Source: The Infernal Devices, Clockwork Princess (2013), p. 564, inscription on the back of Tessa's jade pendant
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
Variant: Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and i learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
“Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.”
Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
“He’s my whole world.”
“Don’t ever say that about anyone again. Not even me.”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Nicholas Sparks book Dear John
"Because they're passionate about their subjects."
Savannah Lynn Curtis and John Tyree, Chapter 4, p. 69-70
Source: 2000s, Dear John (2006)
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes book Demon in My View
Source: Demon in My View
Milan Kundera book Identity
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight
Variant: For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
Source: Identity
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
Source: More Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol 2
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.”
William Faulkner book The Sound and the Fury
Source: The Sound and the Fury
“There was only one way to get through the rest of the evening and it wasn't sober.”
Sarra Manning (1950) British writer
Source: Kiss and Make Up
Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea
Variant: It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.
Source: Nausea (1938)
Context: I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.
