Showing posts with label Thought Provoking Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thought Provoking Quotes. Show all posts

You're only as sick as your se...

You're only as sick as your secrets.
~Anonymous~

You think you are killing me. ...

You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.
~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin~

You purchase pain with all tha...

You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live.
~Alexander Pope~

You can owe nothing, if you gi...

You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.
~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin~

You are sad because they aband...

You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin~

Within your lifetime will, per...

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""~

We shall not cease from explor...

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~

We have met the enemy and they...

We have met the enemy and they are ours.
~Oliver Hazard Perry~

We dance round in a ring and s...

We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
~Robert Frost~

We cross our bridges when we c...

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
~Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead~

We are never prepared for what...

We are never prepared for what we expect.
~James A. Michener, Caravans~

We are asleep with compasses i...

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
~W.S. Merwin~

Two roads diverged in a wood, ...

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
~Robert Frost~

Two and two the mathematician ...

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, Whistler Versus Ruskin, 1878~

They have stopped deceiving yo...

They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.
~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin~

The universe is simmering down...

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~

the high cost of living isnt s...

the high cost of living isnt so bad if you dont have to pay for i
~ Don Marquis, Archy and Mehitabel, 1927~

The first step... shall be to ...

The first step... shall be to lose the way.
~Galway Kinnell~

The departing world leaves beh...

The departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.
~Alexander Ivanovich Herzen, Other Shore~