“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”— Yann Martel, amazon.comTagged: Doubt, How To Think, How To Live, Choose Hope, Why Optimism Matters
“There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.”— Jennifer Egan, amazon.comTagged: Love, self control, Thoughts, one perfect sentence, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”— William Shakespeare, amazon.comTagged: Hell, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“There is no passion without secrecy, this secrecy where everything is nonetheless said.”— Jacques Derrida, amazon.comTagged: The Secret of Secrecy, Passion, Against Transparency, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.”— Joseph Conrad, amazon.comTagged: Weakness, strength, Luck of Privilege, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night— every nig…”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.comTagged: Love, Life, travel, Sadness, one perfect sentence
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”— Alan W. Watts, amazon.comTagged: Change, Move With It, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”— Marcel Proust, amazon.comTagged: New Eyes, Eyes, Seeing The World New, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Each of us had something to learn from the others and something to teach in return.”— Augustine of Hippo, amazon.comTagged: Learning, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done before; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: Last Sentences, Going Away, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“For you, a thousand times over’”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: It Was All For You, Love, All For You, Ways To Say I Love You, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: one perfect sentence, Love, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.”— Yukio Mishima, amazon.comTagged: Purity, Perfection, Write with Blood, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“The purpose of art is to transfer feeling from one person’s heart to another person’s heart.”— David Shields, amazon.comTagged: Purpose of Art, Art, My Heart To Your Heart, IWroteThis4You, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature
“They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.”— John Irving, amazon.comTagged: Heartbreak, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature
“I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.comTagged: 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.”— J.K Rowling, amazon.comTagged: Choice, Possibility, Life, Direction, one perfect sentence
“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.comTagged: Perfection, How To Be Content, Finding The Perfect, Ideas, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature
“Between the hammers our hearts endure, just as the tongue does between the teeth and, despite that, still is able to praise.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.comTagged: heart, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“The weight of this sad time we must obey.”— William Shakespeare, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Suffering, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.”— Yukio Mishima, amazon.comTagged: Lies, Self Deception, heart, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Each time you happen to me all over again.”— Edith Wharton, amazon.comTagged: one perfect sentence, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“What we do now echoes in eternity.”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.comTagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Philosophy, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“The curves of your lips rewrite history.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.comTagged: Perfect Words, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.”— Walt Whitman, poetryfoundation.orgTagged: Mistakes, Self Discovery, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.”— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, amazon.comTagged: Truth, Lies, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.”— Halldór Laxness, amazon.comTagged: Truth, Lies, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”— J. D. Salinger, amazon.comTagged: Perfect Words, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences, Beautiful Quotes
“What stares us in the face is often the most difficult to perceive.”— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, amazon.comTagged: Seeing Seeing, Aphorisms, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences