O Quotes
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“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
“only the dead keep secrets."
"it is not easy. Taking a life, even when we knew it was required."
"most people want only to be cared for. If I had no softness, I'd get nowhere at all."
"a flaw of humanity. The compulsion to be unique, which is at war with the desire to belong to a single identifiable sameness."
"someone always gains, just like someone always loses."
"most women are less in love with the partners they choose than they are simply desperate for their approval, starving for their devotion. They want most often to be touched as no one else can touch them, and most of them inaccurately assume this requires romance. But the moment we realize we can feel fulfilled without carrying the burdens of belonging to another, that we can experience rapture without being someone's other half, and therefore beholden to their weaknesses, to their faults and failures and their many insufferable fractures, then we're free, aren't we? "
" enough, for once, to feel, and nothing else. "
" there was no stopping what one person could believe. "
" I noticed that if I did certain things, said things in certain way, or held her eye contact while I did them, I could make her... Soften toward me. "
" I think I've already decided what I'm going to do, and I just hope it's the right thing. But it isn't, or maybe it is. But I suppose it doesn't matter, because I've already started, and looking back won't help. "
" luck is a matter of probabilities. "
"you want to believe that your hesitation makes you good, make you feel better? It doesn't. Every single one of us is missing something. We are all too powerful, too extraordinary, and don't you see it's because we're riddled with vacancies? We are empty and trying to fill, lighting ourselves on fire just to prove that we are normal, that we are ordinary. That we, like anything, can burn. "
" ask yourself where power comes from, if you can't see the source, don't trust it. "
" an assassin acting on his own internal compass. Whether he lived or died as a result of his own choice? Unimportant. He didn't raise an army didn't fight for good, didn't interfere much with the queen's other evils. It was whether or not he could live with his own decision because life was the only thing that truly matters. "
" the truest truth : mortal lifetimes were short, inconsequential. Convictions were death sentences. Money couldn't buy happiness, but nothing could buy happiness, so at least money could buy everything else. In term of finding satisfaction, all a person was capable of controlling was himself. "
" humans were mostly sensible animals. They knew the dangers of erratic behavior. It was a chronic condition, survival. My intention is as same as others. Stand taller, think smarter, be better. "
" she couldn't remember what version of her had put herself into that relationship, into that life, or somehow into this shape, which still looked and felt as it always had but wasn't anymore. "
" conservative of energy meant that there must be dozens of people in the world who didn't exist because of she did. "
" what replace feelings when there were none to be had? "
" the absence of something was never as effective as the present of something. "
"To be suspended in nothing, he said, was to lack all motivation, all desire. It was not numbness which was pleasurable in fits, but functional paralysis. Neither to want to live nor to die, but to never exist. Impossible to fight."
"apology accepted. Forgiveness, however, declined."
"there cannot be success without failure. No luck without unluck."
"no life without death?"
"Everything collapse, you will, too. You will, soon.”
Source: The Atlas Six
“Only the dead know Brooklyn.”
Source: The Complete Short Stories Of Thomas Wolfe
“Only the dead know the truth.”
Source: Savva: The Life of Man; Two Plays
“Only the dead will know the end of the war.”
“Only the debris of wreckage, and not much of that, was left behind by the sharks who fed on tragedy: the fishermen, too, mourned the death of a living child.”
Source: The Story of Lucy Gault
“Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.”
“Only the defeat of the proletariat in Germany in 1923 gave the decisive push to the creation of Stalin's theory of national socialism: the downward curve of the revolution gave rise to Stalinism, not to the theory of the permanent revolution, which was first formulated by me in 1905. This theory is not bound to a definite calendar of revolutionary events; it only reveals the world-wide interdependence of the revolutionary process.”
“Only the defeated know LOVE. because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles - and generally lose.”
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra
“Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity".”
“Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.”
“Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.”
“Only the desireless can
see the world objectively,
detached from emotion,
outcome and need.
But what is the meaning of the truth
if there is no love in between?”
Source: Cacophony of My Soul: When Love Becomes Poetry
“Only the destructive forces know death as lord. Only spiritual forces know life as the Lord. Know ye the Lord!”
“Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.”
“Only the development of his inner powers can offset the dangers inherent in man's losing control of the tremendous natural forces at his disposal and becoming the victim of his own achievements.”
“Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.”
“Only the disciplined in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.”
“Only the disciplined ones are free in life”
“Only the disenfranchised can party with abandon.”
Source: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
“Only the Divine Being delivers.”
“Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same.”
“Only the dreamer can envision and execute their dream; no one else can do it for them.”
Source: Go Viral!: The Social Media Secret to Get Your Name Posted and Shared All Over the World!
“Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.”
Source: At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe
“Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed”
Source: The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1928-1938
“Only the dumb thinks of their own insight to be the best, the wise on the other hand recognizes and embraces the good from everyone.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left.”
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking
“Only the dying take pleasure in the details of what the healthy fail to notice.”
“Only the Earth can become the central axis around which world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no single nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth itself. For that to happen, the collective human consciousness must expand enough so that our highest identification is as Earth-Humans.”
“Only the educated are free.”
Source: Discourses (Books 1 and 2)
“Only the ego can fear, experience hate, lust and jealousy. Humility experiences none of these things - it merges into the transcendental awareness of perfection.”
“Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.”
“Only the ego wants to get rid of the ego.”
Source: The Perfume of Silence
“Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.”
Source: On War
“Only the elites despise earning money.”
“Only the empire uses this word, because you assume who lives on the steppe is the same. Naimads are not Ketreyids. Call us by our names.”
Source: The Dragon Republic
“Only the enlightened are consistently happy. Their happiness is not predicated upon the events and experiences that take place in this world. Instead it is based on the boundless inner energy they gain from their connection with the world of enlightenment.”
“Only the entire universe can teach the entire answer.”
Source: Zen and the Gospel of Thomas
“Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.”
“Only the exceptional paths bring exceptional glories!”
“Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.”
“Only the extremely strong – those who don’t care what others think – can take an interest in unpopular memes: the truth memes, the Logos memes. Our world has a very simple set up. Emotionally powerful memes are enormously more successful and popular than intellectually powerful memes. The whole of human fate – everything about humanity, the entirety of human history – is bound to that single fact.”
Source: The Intelligence Wars: Logos Versus Mythos
“Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.”
Source: The Touchstone: American Literature
“Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. Love is the most impregnable refuge of self-esteem, and we hate the eye that reaches to our nakedness. Edith Wharton ~ The Touchstone”
Source: The Greater Inclination: The Touchstone
“Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.”
“Only the fakes survive.”
“Only The Fallen Can Rise Again”
Source: The Crippled God
“Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great.”
Source: Doctor Zhivago
“Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be 'strangers in a strange land,' who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt.”
Source: Families and Family Therapy
“Only the fantasy of choice remained.”
Source: Strangers