“Beautiful doesn't begin to describe it. A flower is beautiful. But this is beautiful the way that a person is beautiful- terrifying with its jagged edges, yet seductive with its crevices that hide so many secrets.”
Source: Requiem for the Devil
“WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINK
Some people cower
and wince and shrink,
owing to fear of
what people may think.
There is one answer
to worries like these:
people may think
what the devil they please.”
“أكثر الناس كلاما ً ، أقلهم نفعا ً و إنتاجا”
Source: عشت سعيداً من الدراجة إلى الطائرة
“Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments."
[On Water]”
Source: The Collected Stories of Guy de Maupassant
“Human beings are basically huge monkeys that walked upright, but they can be pretty full of themselves.”
Source: The Travelling Cat Chronicles
“People are only rational on the surface.”
Source: Christine
“Silence is deep as Eternity;
Speech is shallow as Time.”
Source: Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection
“He leaned forward suddenly, so that for an instant the strong, bearded face was clear; the voice softened, and there was an aching sadness in it. "Only the creatures of the earth take from one another, boy. All creatures, but men more than any. Life they take, and liberty, and all that another man may have--sometimes through greed, sometimes through stupidity, but never by any volition but their own. Beware your own race, Bran Davies--they are the only ones who will ever harm you, in the end.”
Source: The Grey King
“Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.”
Source: The Vintner's Luck
“If people were to tell other people everything about themselves, we’d live in a dull world.”
Source: Satin Island