C.D. Payne Quotes
It's the in-between, the sustenance, not just the gears and bolts that make a human. When you forget to find out how the person was built—the oil, chemistry, and the craft—you miss all the beauty.
I watched him with wonder like the stars watch the moon, falling in love with every crescent, dark side, and dream.
From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent. It can only be squandered.
I care not that this moment’s lot was thin and sparsely dealt all pleasures sweet can be forgot the instant they are felt.
The lot of the brideto be wed before beddesired until rotten.The lot of the authorto be read before bedadmired then forgotten.
I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.
War's a racket. No doubt. But war is a racket for the politicians, not the soldiers.
Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.
Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.
I was glad to be made awarethat “Veimke” (jeune fille au pair), is subject to natural law, and can be made fat, by such things as poor diet, and alcohol.
All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.
Deep” to me connotes intellectual rigor, not fashionable obscurity or the unnecessarily academic.
Life is a lie. We should fear it more than death. We live fearful of dying, terrified of the unknown … when, really, every truth is in our last breath.
Perhaps it's better to find joy in the rubble rather than celebrate in ignorance.
Even the memory of cradling her in my arms is pure euphoria. And all that I ask out of life is that it be constant and unending euphoria.
You’re only as happy as your least happy child, ’ is the best description of motherhood I have ever read.
Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except of course when they are alone.
In the quantum multiverse, every choice, every decision you've ever and never made exists in an unimaginably vast ensemble of parallel universes.
The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.
Be willing to turn your attention to that which serves you.
Dreams are like stars. you may never touch them, but if you follow them, they will lead you to your destiny.
Rest nurtures creativity, which nurtures activity. Activity nurtures rest, which sustains creativity. Each draws from and contributes to the other.
I saw this moment as attached by threads to eternity and woven between all the other braided moments of my past and my future.
I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a few times. But I still claim the ability to write a "serious" novel.
Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature.
Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.
Purge everything that's holding you back. Whatever it is you feel you are being deprived of, trust the limitation serves to bring you more of what you want.
Everything that has ever been beautiful has been burned. Like you.
...lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.
...purification was the point of such pain.
If you can love all who've betrayed you... you can taste sweetness in everything.
The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death.
The point is to turn your grief into love. The roses are helping you find grace.
Sometimes I think my scars are beautiful, but then I remember not everyone shares the same love of art.
Life is Not a perpetual climb towards Greatness.For our family, ourselves, and friends, It is but sad Decay, so, Let every girl die after her Hebé (Ἥβη).And every man after his Aristeia(ἀριστεία).
...anyone looking for friends without faults shall remain friendless. The choice is yours.