In honor of the quotation phase I went through a couple years ago:
It was because I was now berefit of all the comfort I had had from her that my soul was wounded and my life seemed shattered, for her life and mine had been as one.
- Augustine, on the death of his mother
Where we love is home,
Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Homesick in Heaven
There are some fish that can't be caught. It's not that they're bigger or faster than the other fish, they're just touched by something extra.
- "Big Fish"
During the time I was with him, Phineas created an atmosphere in which I continued now to live, a way of sizing up the world with erratic and entirely personal reservations, letting its rocklike facts sift through and be accepted only a little at a time, only as much as he could assimilate without a sense of chaos and loss. No one else I have ever met could do this.... When [others] began to feel that there was this overwhelmingly hostile thing in the world with them, then the simplicity and unity of their characters broke and they were not the same again.
- A Separate Peace
In summer, the song sings itself.
- William Carlos Williams
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
- Ronald Reagan
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state.
Being in love shows a person who he should be.
- Anton Chekhov
I loathe the expression, "What makes him tick." It is the America mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
- James Thurber
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters
It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
There are moments when, no matter the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
