Hmmm Quotes
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.- Benjamin Franklin quotes
A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.- Homer quotes
The departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.- Alexander Ivanovich Herzen quotes
You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.- Antonio Porchia quotes
He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.- Antonio Porchia quotes
My heaviness comes from the heights.- Antonio Porchia quotes
You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live.- Alexander Pope quotes
He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong.- Antonio Porchia quotes
They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.- Antonio Porchia quotes
I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.- Antonio Porchia quotes
I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.- Dag Hammarskjold quotes
Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison.- Antonio Porchia quotes
My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.-Antonio Porchia quotes
You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.- Antonio Porchia quotes
You're only as sick as your secrets.- Anonymous quotes
Night and morning are making promises to each other which neither will be able to keep. - Richard Shelton
I imagine that yes is the only living thing. - E.E. Cummings
Ink smears, as thoughts sometimes do. - Terri Guillemets
Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love. - Galway Kinnell
Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of. - D.M. Thomas
Silence moves faster when it's going backward. - Jean Cocteau
We are asleep with compasses in our hands. - W.S. Merwin
If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could! - Antonio Porchia, Voces
Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess. - Juan Ramon Jimenez
[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow. - Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
Two and two the mathematician continues to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five. - James McNeill Whistler
We are never prepared for what we expect. - James A. Michener
The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won't be able to tell the carrots from the onions. - Arthur Bloch
As I was walking up the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish, I wish he'd go away.
- Hugh Mearns
It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat. - Loren Eiseley
We have met the enemy and they are us! - Walt Kelly
Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window. - Jules Renard
Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm. - William Wordsworth
You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun. - Antonio Porchia
the high cost of
living isnt so bad if you
dont have to pay for it
- Don Marquis
Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don't mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives. - E.E. Cummings
You're only as sick as your secrets. - Author Unknown
Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly. - Antonio Porchia
Clouds, birds, tree tops
The freedom of being on high
Closer to the sun
Further from the slum,
But farther to fall when they die.
- Carrie Latet
All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed waste-paper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing. - D.H. Lawrence
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time. - T.S. Eliot, 1943
The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent. - Thomas Carlyle
I believe if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps. - Benito Perez Galdos
You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen. - Antonio Porchia
Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnameable. - Francis Ponge
Invent a past for the present. - Daniel Stern
My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went. - Antonio Porchia, Voces
Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison. - Antonio Porchia, Voces,
A hunter of shadows, himself a shade. - Homer
The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions. - Susan Sontag
Within your lifetime will, perhaps,
As souvenirs from distant suns
Be carried back to earth some maps
Of planets and you'll find that one's
So hard to color that you've got
To use five crayons. Maybe, not.
- Marlow Sholander, "Maybe"
No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. - Terry Pratchett
I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die. - William Wiley
I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one. - Dag Hammarskjold
The first step... shall be to lose the way. - Galway Kinnell
Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence. - Norman Mailer
The Great Way has no gate.
Clear water has no taste.
The tongue has no bone.
In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing. - Seung Sahn
He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone. - Antonio Porchia, Voces
I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone. - Antonio Porchia, Voces
Love, she said, should be said more slowly, and ran from the house. Words could not catch her as such. Honesty is so slow, that is the trouble. - Author Unknown
They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you. - Antonio Porchia