Quotes of: Poe Keyword

There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.

The Poisonwood Bible

I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

The Poisonwood Bible

To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.

The Poisonwood Bible

...I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them...

The Poisonwood Bible

You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.

The Poisonwood Bible

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

The Poisonwood Bible

God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.

The Poisonwood Bible

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

Père Goriot

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

Père Goriot

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

Père Goriot

We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

Père Goriot

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

Politics

The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

Politics

Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.

The Poems Of Wilfred Owen

Pilgrims were people glad to take off their clothing, which was on fire.

Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

The Poet's Companion: A Guide To The Pleasures Of Writing Poetry

I wouldn't give up being a Sentinel for the world. Or being the Apollyon. I rock." "Wow. You're so humble.

Pure

Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?

Poems of Christina Rossetti

To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.

Psion

All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.

Poetics