How sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet
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Robert Browning
If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. The love, the heartbreak, the joy, the despair, the things I did that were good, the things I did that were shameful--if I kept them all inside, my memories of them...
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Cassandra Clare
Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past.
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Shannon L. Alder
The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present.
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Mike Norton
In history, truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost .. . especially against the narrow and futile patriotism, which, instead of pressing forward in pursuit of truth, takes pride in walking backwards to cover the slightest nakedness of our forefathers.
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Col. Thomas Aspinwall
More Quotes By Sophocles
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
A lie never grows old.
The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength
