Quotable Quotes
Welcome all! In this section of Writer's Corner, you will find some of my favourite quotes. I hope you enjoy them as much I do...
"I have love in me the likes of which you could scarcely imagine. And rage... the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot fulfill the one, I will indulge the other."
--Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
"We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."
--Inscription on a New England tombstone
"Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once."
--Robert Browning
"Sadness is not an evil. Complain not; what seem to be sufferings and obstacles are often in reality the mysterious efforts of nature to help you in your work if you can manage them properly. Look upon all circumstances with the gratitude of a pupil. All complaint is a rebellion against the law of progress."
--H. P. Blavatsky
"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense
to know how to lie well."
--Samuel Butler
"Every homocidal maniac needs an unholy army of the night."
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
-James Dean
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
-Robert Frost
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don�t try."
-Beverly Sills
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
-Langston Hughes
"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so."
-David Grayson
"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."
-Leo Rosten
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
-Les Brown
"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them."
-Antoine de Saint Exupery
"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."
-Moliere
"Buildings burn, people die, but true love lasts forever"
-- Anonymous