Quotes about evening
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“To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks.

To reach back and help, because that is what spiritual beings do.”

Brian L. Weiss

Source: Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love

Help
Jodi Picoult photo

“They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

James Patterson photo

“Gazzy, man, jeezum!" Fang exclaimed. "What the heck have you been eating for God's sake?"
That was a smoke bomb!" Gazzy defended himself. "Not even i could fill this whole flippin' house!”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Fang

God, Housing
Nicholas Sparks photo

“Sometimes my grief is overwhelming, and even though I understand that we will never see each other again, there is a part of me that wants to hold on to you forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

Understanding, Parting
Robert Fulghum photo

“We even make ourselves up, fusing what we are with what we wish into what we must become. I'm not sure why it must be so, but it is.”

Robert Fulghum (1937) American writer

Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things

Robert A. Heinlein photo

“The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge… and stronger.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

Sex
Ayn Rand photo

“She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness, yet they could let each other see it without the need of protection.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

Pain, Happiness
H.L. Mencken photo

“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

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Popular version of the first sentence: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-front for the urge to rule it."
1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Source: Minority Report

Chance, Parting, Falseness
Jodi Picoult photo

“Until I understood why you didn't cry, even though it hurt: there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Pain, Hurt, Cry
Rick Riordan photo

“I may be biased, but I think jackals are cute and cuddly, even if they were known for digging up graves in Ancient Egypt.”

Rick Riordan book The Serpent's Shadow

Source: The Serpent's Shadow

Thinking
Jodi Picoult photo

“It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Music, Learning, Heart
H.L. Mencken photo

“The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

Source: 1910s, Prejudices, First Series (1919), Ch. 16
Context: The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man — that is, virtuous in the Y. M. C. A. sense — has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.

World
Kim Harrison photo

“He's going to hurt you," Al said, looking at Pierce. "I can take care of you, teach you to survive. Be there for you, even if you do hate me."
I shivered. "I don't want him," I said, and Al turned away, seeming smaller somehow.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Black Magic Sanction

Hate, Hurt

“It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.”

Reginald Rose Twelve Angry Men

Source: Twelve Angry Men

Courage, Courageous
Colum McCann photo

“There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

Thinking, Parting

“Even God used silence as a strategy.”

Gregory Maguire (1954) Novelist

Source: Mirror Mirror

God, Silence
Scott Lynch photo

“Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone… not even to ourselves.”

Scott Lynch book The Republic of Thieves

Source: The Republic of Thieves

Love

“No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know were mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.”

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

Source: Thirst No. 3: The Eternal Dawn

Thinking
Louis-ferdinand Céline photo

“There's something sad about people going to bed. You can see they don't give a damn whether they're getting what they want out of life or not, you can see they don't even try to understand what we're here for. They just don't care.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

Life, People, Sadness, Understanding
Edith Wharton photo

“In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

World, Reality
Anne Michaels photo

“Trees, for example, carry the memory of rainfall. In their rings we read ancient weather—storms, sunlight, and temperatures, the growing seasons of centuries. A forest shares a history, which each tree remembers even after it has been felled.”

Anne Michaels book Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

History, Tree, Memory, Reading
Langston Hughes photo

“Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

Happiness, People, Music
Clarence Darrow photo

“Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?”

Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union

Learning
Sylvia Plath photo

“I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Journals Of Sylvia Plath

Flowers, Dead

“It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!”

Wendelin Van Draanen (1965) American writer

Source: Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things

Joseph Heller photo

“I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.”

Joseph Heller (1923–1999) American author

Dreams, Night
Jenny Offill photo

“But my agent has a theory. She says every marriage is jerry-rigged. Even the ones that look reasonable from the outside are held together inside with chewing gum and wire and string.”

Jenny Offill book Dept. of Speculation

Source: Dept. of Speculation

Marriage
Cassandra Clare photo

“That Jem makes beautiful things and I destroy them. That it really ought to be me dying and not him. I mean, what's the point of living if you can't even enjoy it? Yet Jem enjoys all the life he's got. It's not fair.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Life, Beauty

“Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.”

Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist

Source: Simply Magic

Soul
Khaled Hosseini photo

“But even when he wasn't around, he was.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

Nathaniel Hawthorne photo

“It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne book The House of the Seven Gables

Source: The House of the Seven Gables

People
Rick Riordan photo

“I stared at her. Maybe I wasn't the brightest guy in the world when it came to girls, but I was pretty sure Rachel had just dumped me, which was lame considering we'd never even been together.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

World, Guy, Girl
Carrie Underwood photo

“*Oh, I know I could say were through
And tell myself I'm over you
But even if I made a vow
I promise not to miss you now
And try to hide the truth inside
I fell cause I, I just can't live a lie”

Carrie Underwood (1983) American country music singer

Truth, Lie
Kay Ryan photo

“Not even waste/is inviolate./The day misspent,/the love misplaced,/has inside it/the seed of redemption./Nothing is exempt from resurrection.”

Kay Ryan (1945) American poet

Variant: The day misspent,
the love misplaced,
has inside it
the seed of redemption.
Nothing is exempt
from resurrection.
Source: Say Uncle

Love
Richelle Mead photo

“Well there you go. Even a psychopath recognized your worth enough to want to kill someone else first."
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

Cry
Harlan Coben photo

“Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay”

Harlan Coben book Shelter

Source: Shelter

Fools, Thinking, Forgetting

“But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall. They hold in their creases the ability to change one's life, organically, forever. Even when you shake them out, they've left permanent wrinkles in the fabric of your soul.”

Julie Gregory (1969) American writer

Source: Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood

Life, Soul, Memory, Change
Michel Houellebecq photo

“It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.”

Michel Houellebecq book Atomised

Source: The Elementary Particles

Life, Idea
Markus Zusak photo

“She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Milan Kundera photo

“For how can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Nostalgia
Jane Austen photo

“When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

Fear, Help
Cassandra Clare photo

“Uh, Magnus has a boyfriend,” said Simon.

There was a frightening glint in Julie’s eye. “There are some mountains you still want to climb, even though there are ‘No Trespassing’ signs up.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Born to Endless Night

Mountain
Madeline Miller photo

“Achilles' eyes were bright in the firelight, his face drawn sharply by the flickering shadows. I would know is in dark or disguise, told myself. I would know it even in madness.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

Madness
Robin S. Sharma photo

“There are no mistakes in life,
only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only
opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of selfmastery.
From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher”

Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer

Life, Pain, Learning, Teachers
John Calvin photo

“Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.”

John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer

Fear
Pablo Neruda photo

“White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul
You live again in time, slender and silent.”

Pablo Neruda book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Source: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Soul, Bee, Time
Sarah Dessen photo

“It was like reaching for someone's hand, then missing their fingers, or even their arm, and hitting their shoulder instead. But no matter. You hang on tight anyway.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

Albert Einstein photo

“It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Life, Feeling, Tree, Animals
Milan Kundera photo

“To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know how to be dead.”

Milan Kundera book Immortality

Source: Immortality

Dead
Martin Buber photo

“Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.”

Martin Buber (1878–1965) German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian

“… sometimes you just want the comfort of knowing that somebody really does care about you (even if they show it in peculiar ways).”

Cara Lockwood (1973) American writer

Source: I Do -- But I Don't

Way
Nicholas Sparks photo

“And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn't that he was unusually attractive, or ambitious, or even charming. He was partly those things, but more important, he seemed to live life on his own terms.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

Love, Life
Isobelle Carmody photo

“My heart belongs to you,' He promised.
'Would you have loved me when I was a girl?'
'I have always loved you. Even before I met you I loved the idea of you.”

Isobelle Carmody book Greylands

Source: Greylands

Love, Girl, Idea, Heart
Neal Shusterman photo

“The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: Bruiser

Pain, Way, Waiting
Jenny Han photo

“It wasn’t was easy as picking one over the other. Nothing ever was. It wasn’t as though I’d even had a choice, not really.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

“Even if I'm following the path my parents set, I need to take my own dreams and beliefs with me.”

Natsumi Ando (1970) Manga artist

Source: Kitchen Princess, Vol. 05

Dreams, Parent
Idries Shah photo

“Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.”

Idries Shah (1924–1996) writer and Sufi teacher

Source: Sufi Thought and Action

People, Pleasure, World, Suffering

“A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Disease, Beauty, Tree

“Enjoy your Evening."

"That will depend on the menu. If it's beef, it will be a tolerable meal. If it's chicken…" Elliot shuddered. "What is the point of chicken?"

"Eggs?”

Anne Bishop book Written in Red

Source: Written in Red

Dependency
Ernest Hemingway photo

“There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

People
Junot Díaz photo

“It was like being at the bottom of an ocean, she said. There was no light and a whole ocean crushing down on you. But most people had gotten so used to it they thought it normal, they forgot even that there was a world above.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

People, World, Light
Candace Bushnell photo

“Rule number three: Best friends always think you deserve the best guy even if the best guy barely knows you exist.”

Candace Bushnell book The Carrie Diaries

Source: The Carrie Diaries

Guy, Thinking
Guy Gavriel Kay photo

“We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.”

Guy Gavriel Kay book The Summer Tree

Source: The Summer Tree

Despair
Georges Bataille photo

“I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.”

Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure

Love
Barbara Kingsolver photo

“the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners”

Barbara Kingsolver book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Error
Nick Hornby photo

“I'm simply pointing out that what happens to us isn't the whole story. That I continue to exist even when we're not together.”

Nick Hornby book High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

Jeffrey Archer photo

“Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.”

Jeffrey Archer book Only Time Will Tell

Source: Only Time Will Tell

People

“Human beings, as I know better than most, can get used to anything. Over time, even the unthinkable gradually wears a little niche for itself in your mind and becomes just something that happened.”

Tana French In the Woods

Source: In the Woods

Time
Orson Scott Card photo

“The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.”

Orson Scott Card book Empire

Source: Empire

History, Chance, Fight
Cassandra Clare photo

“Tobias loved her more than he’d loved anything—his family, his duty, even himself. There, perhaps, the Herondale blood ran true.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Lost Herondale

Love, Family
James Thurber photo

“Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.”

James Thurber book The 13 Clocks

Source: The 13 Clocks

Laughter
Candace Bushnell photo

“Always look like you know where you're going, even when you don't”

Candace Bushnell (1958) American author

Source: Summer and the City: A Carrie Diaries Novel TV Tie-in Edition

Jeff Lindsay photo

“But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.”

Jeff Lindsay book Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Stupidity

“Maybe she, like me, would have loved the tiny details and inconveniences even more dearly than the wonders, because they are the things that prove you belong.”

Tana French In the Woods

Source: In the Woods

Love

“All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home… and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped

School, Home, Time, Personality
Haruki Murakami photo

“I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Thinking
Joan Didion photo

“We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.”

Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking

Source: The Year of Magical Thinking

Imagination
Jhumpa Lahiri photo

“On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl.”

Jhumpa Lahiri book The Namesake

Source: The Namesake

Robert M. Pirsig photo

“Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?”

Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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

Past, Future, Forgetting
Arthur C. Clarke photo

“["The Devil in the Dark"] impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction thennow, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn.”

Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host

Idea, Learning, Science
Nancy Holder photo

“I can feel you, even though I can't see you.”

Nancy Holder (1953) American writer

Source: Wicked: Witch & Curse

Feeling

“Is Joe your father, Zach?'

I don't know where the question came from, but it was out, and I couldn't take it back even if I'd wanted to.

'No.' Zach shook his head. 'I never knew my dad. I don't know anything about him.”

Ally Carter Out of Sight, Out of Time

Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time

Question
Donna Tartt photo

“We can’t choose what we want and don’t want and that’s the hard lonely truth. Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us. We can’t escape who we are.”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

Truth
Giacomo Leopardi photo

“What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.”

Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837) Italian poet, philosopher and writer

Frank Miller photo

“Hell’s waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you’re here.”

Frank Miller book The Hard Goodbye

Source: The Hard Goodbye

Hell
Tennessee Williams photo

“In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.”

Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Love, Hate

“Calvin: There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
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Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
Source: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

Problem

“I’m going to carry you now,” he told her, “so we can move even faster. I’m not asking you, I’m telling you. Any response from you is unnecessary and unwelcome.”

Suzanne Brockmann (1960) American writer

Source: Out of Control

Lev Grossman photo

“His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between.”

Lev Grossman The Magicians

Source: The Magicians

Lovers, Nostalgia
Hunter S. Thompson photo

“There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”

Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

God
James Patterson photo

“If you're not reading - with your heart as well as your brain - you will be one stupid grown up. Even worst, you'll be missing out on one of the best experiences you can possibly have. Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Christmas Wedding

People, Books, Stupidity, Reading
Russell Hoban photo

“After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?”

Russell Hoban (1925–2011) American British novelist, children's writer and illustrator

People
Meg Cabot photo

“[…] even in the cruelest human being there can exist a flower of good. Maybe just the tiniest blossom, in need of water and sunlight, but a flower just the same.”

Meg Cabot book Shadowland

Source: Shadowland

Flowers, Water

“I know that happy things and fun things eventually come to an end. But things that are scary and sad come to an end too… they always do. Even if you can't always believe that, please don't give up. Live.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 21

Happiness, Sadness
Jodi Picoult photo

“Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

Decision

“Fifteen minutes later I was an expert. That's all you need. I think I was even getting the upper hand, which is very simple with a guy. Anything seems to turn them on.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

Guy, Thinking
Nicholas Sparks photo

“but she realized that she wanted him to know her. She wanted him to understand her, if only because she had strange sense that he was the kind of man she could fall in love with, even if she didn't want to.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

Love, Understanding, Sense

“Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on.”

Richard Carlson (1961–2006) Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker

Source: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff for Teens: Simple Ways to Keep Your Cool in Stressful Times

Way, Learning, Time, Reading