“Happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Sadness, Grief, Despair, Pain
“If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Grief, Loss, Love
“The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Sadness, Loss, Grief
“Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Misery, Sadness, Loss, Pain, Grief
“As I am sure you know, when people say 'It's my pleasure,' they usually mean something along the lines of, 'There's nothing on Earth I would rather do less.'”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: humor, Sarcasm, Being Polite
“Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing is not excusable if, for instance, you are in a museum and you decide that a certain painting would look better in your house, and you simply grab th…”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: humor, Morality, Right And Wrong, Stealing
“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Reading, Literature, Books, Libraries
“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Reading, Literature, Books
“A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called 'The Road Less Traveled', describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if…”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: humor, Poetry, The Road Less Traveled
“Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Understanding, Reality, Accepting Reality
“No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Reading, Literature, humor
“Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Taking Chances, Taking Risks, Comfort, humor
“The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Reading, Literature, Books, humor, Moral
“I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: First Impressions
“It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Control, Fate, Helplessness
“If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, 'Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed,' but most of us would say something more along the lines of, 'A…”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Optimism, Pessimism, humor
“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Quest, Discovery, Timing, Waiting, Taking Action
“If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: student, studying, School, Reading, Literature
“A good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Weeping, Crying, Sadness, Grief, Loss