Right at this moment, I only want silence. I believe that the end of life is silence in the love people have for you. I've actually been running through what people have said about the end. Religion says that the end is one thing, because it serves t...
Le mot "possible" m'a exaspérée. Je sais gérer les "oui", je sais gérer les "non"; mais les "peut-être" me rendent dingue.
When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
Whose is it, do you think?” I say finally. “No telling,” says Finnick. “Why don’t we let Peeta claim it, since he died today?
It is an empirical judgement [to say] that I perceive and judge an object with pleasure. But it is an a priori judgement [to say] that I find it beautiful, i.e. I attribute this satisfaction necessarily to every one.
When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.
Contentment can only be found in not envying others or comparing yourself to them but in being satisfied with what you have.
I'm just the reason they married. Mum says I was a surprise. Dad says I was an accident. Truth is ... I am their mistake.
There’s more to honesty than … than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can’t lie, but you lie in your intentions, your attitude, your demeanor —
You wanted to live," he says. "You say that like it's a good thing. A virtue." "What is it really?" I think about this. "Selfish." "Wanting to live is selfish?" "Yes.
Wisdom does not only reflect itself in a person’s knowledge of what to say. It appears also in his knowledge about how to say it and when it should be said!
A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.
What is this thing? Did you make it?” “I am a chemist, aren’t I?” Laurence says. “You own a meth-lab,” Benjamin says. “That does not qualify you as a chemist.
My mom used to say that sometimes just saying something aloud was enought to make it true. I wasn't so sure about that.
The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Many people say that time heals all wounds, but that simply is not true. People can become more bitter, arrogant and spiteful with age.
Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow with time (like a twig floating on the surface of the water).
No, I say, it's fine. Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. Just great, I say. Really.
There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant." They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule.
They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?
