Quotes about evening
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Source: The End of the Affair
“Even if neither of us got what we wanted, we found freedom in the third choices.”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary
“Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.”
Source: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Source: The Darkest Kiss
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.”
Source: The Interestings
“Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.”
Source: I Capture the Castle
From Are You the One for Me? (1992)
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
“Love can make even nice people do awful things.”
Source: Lover at Last
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday”
“Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!”
“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”
Source: Middlemarch
“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”
Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
Source: A Walk in the Woods (1997), Chapter 4 (p. 51)
Source: The Mark of Athena
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Source: Sugar Daddy
“I think her flaws make me love her even more. She's not perfect, but she's perfect to me”
Source: Between the Lines
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.
Source: Meditations in an Emergency
Source: Dance with the Devil
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Source: The Woman Destroyed
Source: Tiger Lily
“Even the best thief in the world can't steal time.”
Source: Heist Society
“It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.”
Source: Dreamland (2000)
“Some pain shouldn't be wished away so easily. It had to be dealt with, even embraced.”
Source: The Blood of Olympus
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
Source: The Infernal Devices, Clockwork Princess (2013), p. 564, inscription on the back of Tessa's jade pendant
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.”
“Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish.”
Source: The Mark of Athena
“He’s my whole world.”
“Don’t ever say that about anyone again. Not even me.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
"Because they're passionate about their subjects."
Savannah Lynn Curtis and John Tyree, Chapter 4, p. 69-70
Source: 2000s, Dear John (2006)
Source: Demon in My View
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
Source: Fugitive Pieces
Source: The Beauty Myth (1991), Chapter 6 : 'Hunger', p. 187
Source: Spirit Bound
Source: More Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol 2
Source: The House of Mirth
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.”
Source: The Sound and the Fury
“Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.”
Source: The Stand
“There was only one way to get through the rest of the evening and it wasn't sober.”
Source: Kiss and Make Up
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.
Source: Making History
Magnus Bane, to Clary Fray and Simon Lewis, pg. 61
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)