Quotes of: Holy-book Keyword

If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.

The Book of Disquiet

I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.

The Book of Disquiet

At the end of this day there remains what remained yesterday and what will remain tomorrow: the insatiable, unquantifiable longing to be both the same and other.

The Book of Disquiet

The finest peculiarity of belief is that believers do not recognize themselves as believers.

The Book of Immortality: The Science, Belief, and Magic Behind Living Forever

Tamburlaine's house seemed more a place where books kept their people than where people kept their books.

The Boy Who Lost Fairyland

In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that.

The Book of Lost and Found

In the beginning there was Logos...and God of course. And it was all extremely boring for Logos because he could never beat God at any game...

The Book of the Forsaken

[mother] belonged to a realm of other creatures: smaller, lighter, more easily blown away.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

It was then I thought of Corsica, the place we had discovered together. I craved the wind, the sun and salt, the simplicity of the island.

The Book of Lost and Found

Her first marriage, a distressing experience involving an umbrella, had to be annulled.

A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers

Sono ricordi da trattare con delicatezza per non sporcarli o gualcirli, come oggetti fragili che rischiano di rompersi se li maneggi troppo a lungo

The Book of Lost and Found

Progress has not brought about universal happiness...

The Book of Immortality: The Science, Belief, and Magic Behind Living Forever

The facts that make the world real-- these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it.

The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

The Big Book of Hell

Through pictures, we cut reality in pieces. We selected only the choicest moments, discarding the rest as if they'd never happened.

The Book of Broken Hearts

I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving enough to make the right ones.

The Book of Ivy

He didn’t save me, though. He allowed me the freedom to save myself, which is the very best type of rescue.

The Book of Ivy

But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

The Book of Job

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

The Bookshop

Then everyone would retreat for a nap, after which we would have coffee and cake, sometimes an argument.

The Book of My Lives

One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some kind of enlightenment or salvation.

The Book of My Lives