in any language you like (as long as it is in English or in French ;0)
2006-12-10 08:16:04 · 10 answers · asked by ziggy 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
"Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon thats so deeply a part of your being that you can't even concieve of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."
Paul Bowles
2006-12-10 10:15:29 · answer #1 · answered by short5641sweet 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
“Most people desperately desire to believe that they are part of a great mystery, that Creation is a work of grace and glory, not merely the result of random forces colliding. Yet each time they are given but one reason to doubt, a worm in the apple of the heart makes them turn away from a thousand proofs of the miraculous, whereupon they have a drunkard’s thirst for cynicism, and they feed upon despair as a starving man upon a loaf of bread.”
-Dean Koontz, from the novel “Odd Thomas”
2006-12-10 08:25:41 · answer #2 · answered by vanman2u 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
There's more but i can't think of what it was, I do know it took up almost the entire page.
2006-12-10 08:25:47 · answer #3 · answered by Hawk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The secret to your future is hidden in your daily routine.
If we go through life continuously doing the same things over and over, then we will always have the same things happen.
The true definition of insanity:
Doing the same (experiment) things again and again, expecting a different result when all other criteria stays the same.
2006-12-10 08:30:02 · answer #4 · answered by t_fo_sizzle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leafs a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
its a robert frost poem that was quoted in the outsiders.
2006-12-10 08:24:20 · answer #5 · answered by missi7374 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"It was the best of times...it was the worst of times" from "A Tale of Two Cities". The book was horrible in my opinion, but that line which it opens with is classic and thought provoking.
2006-12-10 11:25:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The art of dying is the art of living. It is not in the last weeks or days that we compose the message that will be remembered, but in all the decades that preceded them. ~ Sherwin B. Nuland in How We Die.
2006-12-10 08:32:17 · answer #7 · answered by masha 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Of course, just because we've heard a spine-chilling, blood-curdling scream of the sort to make your very marrow freeze in your bones doesn't automatically mean there's anything wrong."
-- Terry Pratchett (Soul Music)
2006-12-10 08:23:17 · answer #8 · answered by ethersflame 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"You must find someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. Someone who will tremble for your touch, offer you a marguerite by its long stem with his eyes lowered, someone whose fingers are a poem." [ 1 ]
"Beauty is terror.
Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it." [ 2 ]
2006-12-10 09:01:18 · answer #9 · answered by Natalie 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i walked surely to meet my fate, with my destiny solidly by my side.
new moon by stephenie meyer
I'm an i-pod loving, myspace-addicted, teenage droid, ready to propel your posterior noticeably nearer your craneal.
---you don;t want to know
2006-12-10 08:40:18 · answer #10 · answered by upcoming_author 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋