Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Wherever love is blind, hatred can't see.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable.

Sometimes it is the destinations out of reach that create the circumstances God uses to remind that we are never out of his reach.

Strung out on lasers and slash back blazers.

The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.

People like death and mayhem.

It opens our eyes to many quite weird possibilities about disease that most medical scientists, tending to be unaware of current evolutionary thought, don't think of.

Life begins to happen. My hoppped up husband drops his home disputes, and hits the streets to cruise for prostitutes

But I’ll never see anyone else, Bella. I only see you. Even when I close my eyes and try to see something else. Ask Quil or Embry. It drives them all crazy