Sir Maugre’s erudition was so wide that whatever anyone said reminded him of something that had no bearing on it. Kingdoms of Elfin
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Quote:- Sir Topher finally looked up. Because any hope beyond that, my boy, would be too much. I feared we would drown in it."Then I choose to drown, Finnikin said. In hope. Rather than float into nothing.
Finnikin of the Rock
Author:- Melina Marchetta
Category:- hope
Quote:- Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.
Author:- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?
Antigone
Author:- Sophocles
Category:- hope
Quote:- Sister - she was my friend, the first person I shared a secret with. Brother - he was my armour, the first person who protected me. Father - he was my listener, the first person I ever cried with. Mother - she was my "Home", the first place I ever lived.
Author:- Kamil Alvi
Category:- Love
Quote:- Sisyphus was an entitled brat! The hero of his own story. We, however, are much worse. We are nothing but supporting characters in an endless novel, not essential, not consequential. just there for the sake of it.
The Gods Are Not Dead
Author:- Abhaidev
Category:- Life
Quote:- Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley - Volume 1
Author:- Thomas Huxley
Category:- science
Quote:- Sit down, have a nice cup of coffee read a book in another language - the fountain of youth!
Author:- Stephen Krashen
Category:- science
Quote:- Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter. Sit still with me and meditate on how useless effort is, how alien the will, and on how our very meditation is no more useful than effort, and no more our own than the will. Meditate too on how a life that wants nothing can have no weight in the flux of things, but a life the wants everything can likewise have no weight in the flux of things, since it cannot obtain everything, and to obtain less than everything is not worthy of souls that seek the truth.
The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive
Author:- Fernando Pessoa
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Sithemba ngisho kungathembisi, ngoba othembisile , wethembekile
Author:- De philosopher DJ Kyos
Category:- best
Quote:- Sitting at the tables of cafés in the cities I visited, I found myself thinking that everything tasted to me of dreams, of emptiness. I sometimes found myself wondering if I was still sitting at the table of out old house, motionless and dazzled by dreams! I cannot promise you that this is not what is happening, that I am not still there now, that all this, including this conversation with you, is false and imaginary. Who are you, by the way? The absurd thing is that you don’t know either...
The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
Author:- Fernando Pessoa
Category:- best
Quote:- Sitting still is a pain in the ass.
Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries
Author:- Noah Levine
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Sitting there on the heather, on our planetary grain, I shrank from the abysses that opened up on every side, and in the future. The silent darkness, the featureless unknown, were more dread than all the terrors that imagination had mustered. Peering, the mind could see nothing sure, nothing in all human experience to be grasped as certain, except uncertainty itself; nothing but obscurity gendered by a thick haze of theories. Man's science was a mere mist of numbers; his philosophy but a fog of words. His very perception of this rocky grain and all its wonders was but a shifting and a lying apparition. Even oneself, that seeming-central fact, was a mere phantom, so deceptive, that the most honest of men must question his own honesty, so insubstantial that he must even doubt his very existence.
Star Maker
Author:- Olaf Stapledon
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Six a.m.!" Xander cried. "I know that's a number on my clock, but I've never actually been awake to personally witness it!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 1
Author:- Alice Henderson
Category:- time
Quote:- Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
Survivor
Author:- Chuck Palahniuk
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Sixty seconds is a long time on the battlefield.
Operation Jihadi Bride: The Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS
Author:- Clifford Thurlow
Category:- time
Quote:- Sixty-five million years ago, an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, but in so doing opened the way forward for mammals. Today, humankind is driving many species into extinction and might even annihilate itself. But other organisms are doing quite well. Rats and cockroaches, for example, are in their heyday. These tenacious creatures would probably creep out from beneath the smoking rubble of a nuclear Armageddon, ready and able to spread their DNA. Perhaps 65 million years from now, intelligent rats will look back gratefully on the decimation wrought by humankind, just as we today can thank that dinosaur-busting asteroid.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Author:- Yuval Noah Harari
Category:- science
Quote:- Sixty-seven-year-old Claudia, on a pavement awash with packaged American matrons, crying not in grief but in wonder that nothing is ever lost, that everything can be retrieved, that a lifetime is not linear but instant. That, inside the head, everything happens at once.
Moon Tiger
Author:- Penelope Lively
Category:- time