C. L. Gray Quotes

From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take.

The hues of bliss more brightly glow, Chastis'd by sabler tints of woe.

Human kind has little or nothing to do with the recent temperature changes. We are not that influential

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

Most people are boring and stupid.

Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.

Love after divorce is all about showing and sharing with my son what is good and right in life!

We're attracted to bad guys, and we like to follow bad guys, because they do things that we want to do but just don't do, for whatever reasons.

The statistics requested respecting the number of crimes that have been solved by tracing the firearm back to the registered owner are not kept at this time and are therefore not available.

To grow in our ability to love ourselves we need to receive love as well.

Find something that feels good, that resonates with your heart.

I am a big lover of the environment. I actually come from Maine, which is pretty much all environment.

I am determined to enjoy each day to the fullest. I don't want to wish away Christmas. I want to enjoy these last moments of Advent and look forward to Jesus's birth with anticipation.

And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe.

I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.

But do you want this? It's not much of a life. Don't you see? It's the first life I've had in four hundred years. With you--in the only way that matters--I'm alive again.

All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened.

In my opinion, all boyfriends should turn out to be secretly wealthy.

Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.

Now I know that grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from within.

The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.

We can always hate that which we loved, and with a fire as great as our love once was.

Tell me why.” My voice shook. “Tell me right now.

Along with rising and falling water, winter is the province of wind. When the sea-breath and mountain-roar bend the hemlocks of these hills, the birds hang on as best they can.

I fell in love with his unchanging soul.

The first rule of Evernight is that any vampire who seeks sanctuary must be given a place." -Charity

My mother and I always had full adult communication.

I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.

I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.

But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they represent—

She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.

Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.

It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.

This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal death with Agassiz.

Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The fact is, he is very much annoyed by it.

A dog trusts deeply and so is easily betrayed.

Nobody else will ever be able to save me if I’m not fighting as hard as I can to save myself.

About time you grew up and became a vampire like the rest of us.

Poor Lucas, always trying to protect me from danger. He’d never guessed that I was the dangerous one.

You're impossible," he murmured. "But you're worth it.