Her dark hair was scattered and its beauty stung his eyes like smoke and ate into his heart.

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.

Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.

If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.

The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.

Every herd is a refuge for giftlessness, whether it's a faith in Soloviev, or Kant, or Marx. Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently.

For life, too, is only an instant, Only the dissolving of ourselvesIn the selves of all othersAs if bestowing a gift –

Sometimes, Anu, we have to take actions that make us sad because it's the right thing to do for the future.

Thanks to words we have been able to rise above the brutes and thanks to words we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

I haven't shoplifted since I was 13.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded.

If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.

There is no place in the world like Australia. Not even its beautiful neighbor New Zealand.

Being a mother has absolutely forced me. You have to write things down and have systems for all of it. And then you set up systems and you realize they don't work.

No, I don't believe in God, but I respect the fact that you do. Everyone has to have something to believe in.

We're striving to stay in the arenas. We [Papa Roach] had just little things that just took our show a step up and were so stoked for that.