December 2010
34 posts
Feist - Let It Die
“Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely ,...”
– I never met an Oscar Wilde quote I didn’t like. From A Women of No Importance.
“We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.”
– Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe in The Rubber Band.
“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”
– Arthur Miller, The Ride Down Mount Morgan
“Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I...”
– Samuel Beckett, Krapp’s Last Tape
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
– Euripides, Bacchæ
“I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.”
– Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe?, Edward Albee
“Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is...”
– Arthur Miller
“To dream that you steal money, forewarns that you are in danger. You need to be...”
“But suicides have a special language.
Like carpenters they want to know which...”
– Anne Sexton
“Either get busy living or get busy dying.”
– Rita Hayworth and the Shawkshank Redemption, Stephen King.
“The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over...”
– Herodotus
“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of...”
– Jim Morrison
“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose...”
– Faulkner
So... Awake.
“Somebody has to come in second place.”
“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and...”
– Hippocrates
“Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make...”
– Marcel Proust
“If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together, there is something you...”
– Winnie the Pooh
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so...”
– Alexander Graham Bell