Famous quotes by Authors

"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time"

James A. Baldwin, Author

James A. Baldwin

"A man will turn over half a library to make one book"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy"

C. S. Lewis, Author

C. S. Lewis

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else"

C. S. Lewis, Author

C. S. Lewis

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival"

C. S. Lewis, Author

C. S. Lewis

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell"

C. S. Lewis, Author

C. S. Lewis

"The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves"

Camille Paglia, Author

Camille Paglia

"The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"Myths which are believed in tend to become true"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

"If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

"Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

"Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love, you will find that you are left holding only yourself"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

Leo Buscaglia

"Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

Leo Buscaglia

"Change is the end result of all true learning"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

Leo Buscaglia

"A single rose can be my garden... A single friend, my world"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

Leo Buscaglia

"If we don't end war, war will end us"

H.G. Wells, Author

H.G. Wells

"I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again"

Lewis Carroll, Author

Lewis Carroll

"I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it"

Lewis Carroll, Author

Lewis Carroll

"Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire Cat. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the Cat, 'it doesn't matter'"

Lewis Carroll, Author

Lewis Carroll

"The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head"

Terry Pratchett, Author

Terry Pratchett

"It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing"

Terry Pratchett, Author

Terry Pratchett

"Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind"

Terry Pratchett, Author

Terry Pratchett

"About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

Kurt Vonnegut

"Knowledge is love and light and vision"

Helen Keller, Author

Helen Keller

"Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?"

Raymond Holliwell, Author

Raymond Holliwell

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