“The majority of the living weary us or are strangers to us. We truly know and love only the dead. So long as man is alive one does not know what he is or what he will do. We have unwavering confidence only in the dead.”— Maurice Maeterlinck, amazon.com
“Anyway, I started bitching one night before the broadcast. Seymour’d told me to shine my shoes just as I was going out the door with Waker. I was furious. The studio audience were all morons, the announcer was a moron, the sponsors were morons, and I just damn well wasn’t going to shine my shoes for…”— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com
“The temperance of [a] response to raking criticism, the readiness to seize what was just in it and to throw the husks away without undue friction or resentment or los of friendship—these show a kind of character which if it became general could change the course of human affairs.”— Brand Blanshard, amazon.com
“Let us commend to the love of God with silent prayer the soul of a sinful man who partly tried to do his duty. It is by his wish that I say over his grave these words and no more.”— Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, Peter Singer, amazon.com
“Look out for #1. If you don't no one else will. If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't you're just as dumb as he is.”— Arnold Rothstein, amazon.com
“The majority of the human race are dubs and dumbells. They have rotten judgement and no brains, and when you have learned to do things and how to size people up and dope out methods for yourself, they jump to the conclusion that you are crooked.”— Arnold Rothstein, amazon.com
“Unique in his inwardness, in the rigor of his self-scrutiny and of his standards, in his humility, in what Christians would call ‘the hunger and thirst after righteousness.'”— Brand Blandshard, amazon.com
“It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.”— Patti Davis, amazon.com
“Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.”— Alphonse de Lamartine, amazon.com
“My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.”— Emily Dickinson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attended.”— Marie Curie, thoughtcatalog.com
“No matter where you are in life, you’ll save a lot of time by not worrying too much about what other people think about you. The earlier in your life that you can learn that, the easier the rest of it will be.”— Sophia Amoruso, kindle.amazon.com
“However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.”— Stephen Hawking, books.google.com
“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”— Charlie Chaplin, books.google.com