Quotes about evening
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Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“I'm not even supposed to be here today.”
Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
“As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
Even a small love.”
“There's no such thing as. All evil is motivated - even mine {Lucifer}.”
Source: I, Lucifer
Simon, pg. 8
Variant: Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much...
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Fallen Angels (2011)
“until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one”
Variant: That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one
Source: Vanishing Acts
Source: The Pale King (2011)
Context: "Maybe it's not metaphysics. Maybe it's existential. I'm talking about the individual US citizen's deep fear, the same basic fear that you and I have and that everybody has except nobody ever talks about it except existentialists in convoluted French prose. Or Pascal. Our smallness, our insignificance and mortality, yours and mine, the thing that we all spend all our time not thinking about directly, that we are tiny and at the mercy of large forces and that time is always passing and that every day we've lost one more day that will never come back and our childhoods are over and our adolescence and the vigor of youth and soon our adulthood, that everything we see around us all the time is decaying and passing, it's all passing away, and so are we, so am I, and given how fast the first forty-two years have shot by it's not going to be long before I too pass away, whoever imagined that there was a more truthful way to put it than "die," "pass away," the very sound of it makes me feel the way I feel at dusk on a wintry Sunday--... And not only that, but everybody who knows me or even knows I exist will die, and then everybody who knows those people and might even conceivably have even heard of me will die, and so on, and the gravestones and monuments we spend money to have pour in to make sure we're remembered, these'll last what-- a hundred years? two hundred?-- and they'll crumble, and the grass and insects my decomposition will go to feed will die, and their offspring, or if I'm cremated the trees that are nourished by my windblown ash will die or get cut down and decay, and my urn will decay, and that before maybe three of four generations it will be like I never existed, not only will I have passed away but it will be like I was never here, and people in 2104 or whatever will no more think of Stuart A. Nichols Jr. than you or I think of John T. Smith, 1790 to 1864, of Livingston, Virginia, or some such. That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even bring ourselves to even try to imagine, in fact, probably that's why the manic US obsession with production, produce, produce, impact the world, contribute, shape things, to help distract us from how little and totally insignificant and temporary we are... The post-production capitalist has something to do with the death of civics. But so does fear of smallness and death and everything being on fire."
Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now (1993) p. 12.
Source: Girl With Curious Hair
“Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.”
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
“Even needing to get to Angel, we couldn’t forget the basic necessity of eating.”
Source: The Angel Experiment
Source: Phantastes
The first two sentences of this statement first appear as attributed to France in the 1990s, but the full statement is earlier attributed to William Feather, as quoted in Telephony, Vol. 150 (1956), p. 23 http://books.google.com/books?id=Wm0jAQAAMAAJ&q=%22being+able+to+differentiate+between+what+you+do+know%22&dq=%22being+able+to+differentiate+between+what+you+do+know%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qYJOU9dAzoXRAYumgcAP&ved=0CMsCEOgBMDQ
Misattributed
Source: Lighthousekeeping
Alex Wheatley, Chapter 25, p. 208
Source: 2009, Safe Haven (2010)
Source: Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), p. 101.
Source: Common Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the Problem That Baffled Mr. Jefferson
“He was the kind of man everyone would fall in love with, even if they didn't want to.”
Source: The Blood of Olympus
Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Source: Safe Haven
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
Source: A Walk to Remember
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“Remember that even in war there is a time for restraint. A time to hold back your sword.”
Source: Gregor and the Code of Claw
“Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’
‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.”
Source: Thousand Cranes
“Do stupid stuff and even stupider suff will happen to you.”
“I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.”
Source: Anna Karenina
1940s, Science and Religion (1941)
“And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more…”
Source: The Lake
Source: Sailor Moon Stars, #3
“A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself.”
Source: Gadis Pantai
Source: The Dresden Files, Changes (2010), Chapter 26
Context: Harry Dresden: But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn’t about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn’t about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It’s about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It’s about making sacrifices for the good of others—even when there’s not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.
“I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.”
Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth
“Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.”
Source: The Nightingale
“Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Variant: I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do.
Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 6: Work
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Context: I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work" because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
