Quotes of: Do-unto-others Keyword

One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters.

Selected Literary Essays

Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.

On the Song of Songs I

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Shadow Kiss

When you blame others, you are affirming that you have no power, and your existence is only a reaction to the power of others.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Be selfish and take good care of you first. When you are your best, you can best help others.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.

The Monsters and the Critics and other essays

It seems that the people of Oran are like that friend of Flaubert who, on the point of death, casting a last glance at the irreplaceable earth, exclaimed: "Close the window, it's too beautiful.

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Sometimes I wonder if my heart is like a black hole--it's so dense that there's no room for light, but that doesn't mean it can't still suck me in.

My Heart and Other Black Holes

Something inside me clicks. It's like I've spent my whole life fiddling with a complicated combination only to discover I was toying with the wrong lock.

My Heart and Other Black Holes

I don't like songs about wanting things. I like songs about letting go, saying goodbye.

My Heart and Other Black Holes

Old age saves us from the realization of a great many fears.

May We Borrow Your Husband & Other Comedies of the Sexual Life

Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made.

In Memoriam, Maud and Other Poems

Will you treat people who make you miserable, as prison guards, or travel agents?

My Thoughts Prefer Side Streets - Collected Essays and Other Reflections

The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst.

Moral Disorder and Other Stories

It made one mad, for pleasure; and we could not take our eyes from him, and the looks that went out of our eyes came from our hearts, and their dumb speech was worship.

The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

Once a man began thinking with his body, intelligent decisions came few and far between.

Nights of the Round Table and Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy

The harsh reality is that my flesh must die not so much because of what it does, but because of what it is.

No Other gods: Confronting Our Modern Day Idols

Life, it’s made up of two things—time and love. A watch tells one, but what tells the other? We tell each other.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.