Quotes of: The-only-thing Keyword

Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.

Language in Action

You people have a religion of death that fills you with the joy and courage to confront it...I do not. I believe the only essential thing is to be alive.- Abrenucio

Of Love and Other Demons

It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts.

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

When you fail, embrace it. Bleed. Get hurt. Lose your religion. That's the only way you will do amazing things.

Losing My Religion

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

Little Women Book Two Book: Good Wives

Once he got there, he stopped and looked back. “You know, the thing about manners is that we only seem to notice the lack of them in others. It's a lot harder to see mistakes in ourselves.

My Wolf Cowboy

Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.

The Spiritualist

Sometimes you gotta let go. It's hard to walk away from something you love, really hard. But there are times when it's the only sensible thing to do.

Son of a Preacherman

That’s the thing about fear. It can only hang around until faith enters the room, then it’s forced to flee.

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

STOP setting your mind to see only the negative things in life. Place your settings on positive, then kick back and enjoy it for a while!

Soul Vomit: Beating Down Domestic Violence

Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that names are the only things that exist in the world. Maybe that's true, but the problem is that as time passes by, names do not remain the same - even if they don't change.

The Sacred Book of the Werewolf

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.

A Tale of Two Cities

In fact, I don’t understand religion at all and as far as I can see the only thing it does is hasten the slaughter of people who generally seem to be minding their own business.

Original Sin

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Virtue must be the only vigorous thing in our lives. Sin is large and stale. You can never finish easting it nor ever digest it. It has to be vomited.

A Prayer Journal

In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate the mere outward of things and feel pity, what pity can be given save that of scorn?

De Profundis

Nowadays people talk about the things he did as though they made sense. As though even his most disastrous mistakes were only the result of bad luck or hubris.

The Passion

Only the TV sounds are real, they are the actual events. All the people around here experience the same things at the same time, except for some loner, who switches to the educational channel.

The Piano Teacher

I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs.

P.S. I Love You

Science is not separate from politics. As much as I would like it to be a pure thing, existing only in some intellectual realm unsullied by human struggle, it will always be entangled with the world we live in.

The Tropic of Serpents