Quotes of: Cannot Keyword

To heal, you have to give yourself to the pain. You cannot avoid facing yourself your whole life.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

You cannot stare evil in the face; it has no face. It has no body, no bones, no blood. Any attempt to describe it ends in glibness and self-delusion.

The Monster of Florence

At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.

Memoirs of a Geisha

The poor, I am told, are kind to each other but that is because they have nothing to lose,' he said. 'The rich cannot afford to be.

The Mangle Street Murders

I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence.

Much Ado About Nothing

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge.

Mansfield Park

The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.

Mariana

The very smell of tobacco is abominable, for one cannot get it out of the curtains, and there is little pleasure in existence unless the curtains are all right.

My Lady Nicotine, A Study in Smoke

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

Matilda

If I simply do my best, I cannot complain even if I am taken to hell.

Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education

Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.

'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism'

This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream.

Nausea

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

Notes from Underground

Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved.

Looking for Alaska

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

The Letters of Charlotte Brontë

Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.

Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Though your acts of love and compassion cannot penetrate bandages or armour, they are never wasted and never lost. They sit within the recipient’s mind, awaiting his awakening.

The Love Mindset