Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
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William Wordsworth
His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivided and squalid way of life. His soul was still disquieted and cast down by the dull phenomenon of Dublin. He had emerged from a two years' spell of revery to find himself in...
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James Joyce
I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.
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Sebastian Faulks
Not everyone born free and equal, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next...
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Ray Bradbury
Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape...
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Alain De Botton
More Quotes By Raymond Chandler
To say goodbye is to die a little.
I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have...
There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science...
Until you guys own your own souls you don't own mine. Until you guys can be trusted every time and always, in all times and conditions, to seek the truth out and find it and let the chips fall where they may–until that time comes,...
