P. O'Brien Quotes
The unceasing flow of thought in all its various forms is an inescapable and defining aspect of the human condition.
change is a constant in life – maybe the only constant there is – and sudden change is not unusual. Thus an important inquiry is: How can I make change a friend rather than source of fear?
We need to maintain an awareness of our awareness, of what we are paying attention to, in order to discriminate between higher and lower forms of love.
On occasions the war was like a Ping-Pong ball. You could put fancy spin on it, you could make it dance.
He wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.
Social pressure is the fascism of the democracies. Fascism is the democracy of the ruthless. Social engineering is the opiate of romantic intellectuals.
There are only two things you’ll ever need to know about me, Farin—and you should know them well. I’m very smart, and I’m very rich.
That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t sufficient for the truth.
What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again.
You are not your virginity. You are a human being. The state of your hymen has nothing to do with your worth.
Tell me, Anna, if man is capable of projecting his belief onto the cosmos, isn't it possible by the same token, that he can project his unbelief onto the cosmos?
Not living your life is just like killing yourself, only it takes longer.
If you encase yourself in stone like a fossil, you’ll have an existence, but not a life.
The question of what exactly we remember when we listen to old recordings, or whether it can be called remembering at all, becomes less and less answerable over a lifetime.
Devic MagicWoodland sprites, elves and nymphsWaltz in time take a glimpseFairies hide the forest witMushrooms fly, agarics hit
Devil’s WishA bowl of spellsSwirls a mixSmoke and bubblesSeek the fixYoung boy's eyeAnd fever fewWitches grassSome mandrake root
PeterSwirling dreamsDragons knewTouching life to winDeep inside many other worldsWhere should we begin?
Many years ago, plunging was discovered when the moon was in two halves- it's all about dreams, you see
My path will weaveThe way you sayThere is no doubtYou'll create the way
Suicide isn't something people do to hurt other people. It's something people do to release themselves from pain.
I picked up my camera and held it at arm's length and took a picture of myself not caring. I called it: Glory Doesn't Care.
Shall I compare thee to a Shoggoth?
He'd been coiled like a snake for years and the tension had gone slack and when he was ready to spring the spring wasn't there, but it could be recoiled.
She was beautiful, but her youth, the very awkwardness of her age, prevented her from flaunting it.
Put a thief among honest men and they will eventually relieve him of his watch.
But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, except there's still this sound you can't hear.
And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe "Oh.
Yesterday is there, today is here, live in the now, allowing life to show you the light
And sometimes - to get what you want - you must be prepared to accept the apparently unacceptable.
It isn't always easy between us. I admit that. But it's still right between us, always.
Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all.
Do we choose sleep? Hell no and bullshit - we fall. We give ourselves over to possibility, to whim and fancy, to the bed, to the pillow, the tiny white tablet. And these choose for us.
You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.
The control of your mind is most important, and it will be worth your while. You must think deeply. Clear your mind of all bad, unwanted thoughts
Young men list music as their focus and means of identity -- before sport, before TV, before cinema -- while women cite fashion as most important, with music an ambivalent second.