We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.

Breaking into the house in the middle of the night just wasn't his style. He did his best work in plain view, and, usually, his tongue was doing most

She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.

Dead tree branches rattled, the cold wind seethed, it prattled of abominations about to unfold.A lone wolf howled, the full moon it prowled, ready for evils untold.

No wounded man shall sound me and live.

I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.

Because God loves us, he gives us the freedom to make choices. That's good news if we choose wisely. But it also gives us the capacity to sin.

I don’t like anything that’s got to be. I want to know why.

Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always.

No matter what I do, I'm going to earn it.

You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.