Quotes of: Poe Keyword

It is a mistake," Labruyère tells us, "to be in love without an ample fortune.

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

It's far more difficult to disfigure a great work of art than to create one.

Sodom and Gomorrah

What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?

The Selfish Gene

It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering.

Sodom and Gomorrah

The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.

Sodom and Gomorrah

We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course of our existence.

Sodom and Gomorrah

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

But would I have chosen to be Paul? I'd miss Will too much, the feel of his shins.

My Hollywood

Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.

Madness: A Bipolar Life

When grace moves in... guilt moves out

Max on Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

Metropolitan Life/Social Studies

Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.

The Night Bookmobile

Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.

The Nightingales of Troy: Stories of One Family's Century

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

The Nicomachean Ethics

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

The Nicomachean Ethics

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

The Nicomachean Ethics

Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

The Nicomachean Ethics

He knew at the same time that this stricture of acceptance (by which what we must love is made into what we can love) would eventually be a part of himself

Nightwood

I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes.

Nightwood

...only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse.

The Naming

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

A Natural History of the Senses