Latest Quotes

“No one can lose you, my God, unless he forsakes you. And if he forsakes you, where is he to go? If he abandons your love, his only refuge is your wrath. Wherever he turns, he will find your law to punish him, for your law is the truth and the truth is yourself.”

— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“I lived in misery, like every man whose soul is tethered by the love of things that cannot last and then is agonized to lose them.”

— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“My sin was this, that I looked for pleasure, beauty, and truth not in God but in myself and his other creatures, and the search led me instead to pain, confusion, and error.”

— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“By desiring you are made large enough so that, when the time comes, you will be filled.”

— Augustine of Hippo, Homilies on the First Epistle of John

“We learn better in a free spirit of curiosity than under fear and compulsion.”

— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“We live our lives, forever taking leave.”

— Rainer Marie Rilke, Eighth Elegy

“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”

— William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“A person has a body that is not absolute being because it has no stability in itself.”

— Augustine of Hippo, Expositions of the Psalms

“We eagerly fill our body with that which it loses.”

— Augustine of Hippo, Once Out of Nature

“There's bars on planes now? This is... Man, I wish my mother was still alive to see this. She was an alcoholic, but a nice one.”

— James Vanderbilt, Nicholas "Nick" Spitz, Adam Sandler, Murder Mystery

“Audrey: Okay. What's that? Charles Cavendish: That is the Quince dagger. Chinese steel, jewels from across the Orient. A gift to the family from Marco Polo. Or so the legend says. Audrey: God. Nick's grandmother gave us a toaster from Sears. Or so the legend says.”

— James Vanderbilt, Audrey Spitz, Jennifer Aniston, Murder Mystery

“All women are actresses, dear. I'm just clever enough to get paid for it.”

— James Vanderbilt, Grace Ballard, Gemma Arterton, Murder Mystery

“Nick: We travel. I took you to the Poconos that time. Audrey: That was... That was for a funeral, Nick. Nick: How about, uh, when we went to Virginia when my uncle was in a hospice and we got to see him die? We did that.”

— James Vanderbilt, Nicholas "Nick" Spitz, Adam Sandler, Murder Mystery

“You don't have to lie, just tell her to ignore when I'm lying.”

— James Vanderbilt, Nicholas "Nick" Spitz, Adam Sandler, Murder Mystery

“Nick: What happens in Death at the Library? Audrey: They died.”

— James Vanderbilt, Audrey Spitz, Jennifer Aniston, Murder Mystery

“More than 30.8 million Netflix accounts streamed the new movie in three days.”

— Fortune, Why Netflix Wants You—and All of Hollywood—to Know That Everyone’s Watching ‘Murder Mystery’

“He's got a knife plunged in his heart. I don't think he's revivable.”

— James Vanderbilt, Nicholas "Nick" Spitz, Adam Sandler, Murder Mystery

“Social media would probably have remained in the Second Life phase — with people creating clubhouses and personalities that they played around with on the weekends — instead of smartphones fusing together our first and second lives until we couldn’t tell them apart.”

— Pagan Kennedy, The Land Where the Internet Ends

“The world outside the mountains now seemed mad to me, too.”

— Pagan Kennedy, The Land Where the Internet Ends

“Dreams are unfinished thoughts.”

— David Reilly, Memoirs of David Reilly and God Lives Underwater