S Quotes
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“Sometimes I wonder how much of our suffering we allow or impose on ourselves simply in search of our worthiness to accept our own respect and appreciation. I’d written before some years ago that we often cause suffering in another so that we can then love them, as in, “You have suffered for me, so I can love you now.” The eventual shock of realizing the sacrifice made for you destroys the walls of self-righteousness and protection. The suffering sacrifice of another creates the willingness and capacity to do the same. Finally, love and respect (respect is part of the body of love) come from the recognition of something else already given up for them.
Within the individual, you or me, a similar process takes place toward oneself. It is as if we know some- where that we are not worthy of our own love or respect until we have earned the right to it, and that is mainly through some kind of suffering. That suffering may be generic, as in a life lived in which tragedy after tragedy accumulate, or it may be specific, as in the constant sacrifice of other easier things for a being or vision. Or, perhaps more correctly, it is either consciously chosen or not.”
Source: Re:
“Sometimes I wonder how much of these debates have to do with the desire, the legitimate desire, for that history to be recognized. Because there is a psychic power to the recognition that is not satisfied with a universal program, it's not satisfied by the Affordable Care Act, or an expansion of Pell grants, or an expansion of the earned-income tax credit.”
“Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.”
Source: The Speed of Dark: A Novel
“Sometimes I wonder how the world would look if every single one of our cups were overflowing. There would be so much good to go around. So much good health. So much prosperity. So much beautiful life.”
Source: Walking in My Joy: In These Streets
“Sometimes, I wonder how ugly smell can turn a worthy saliva to a bad spit.”
“Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes think, to imagine there's someone watching us every minute. To think our every action matters that much.”
Source: Lost and Found: A Novel
“Sometimes I wonder how you can stand being just a dog..." "You play with the cards you're dealt... Whatever that means.”
“Sometimes I wonder if all my friends are insane.”
Source: The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee (Origami Yoda #3)
“Sometimes I wonder if being an introvert is a curse. On one hand you find solace in your own company and never feel sad about being alone. And on the other hand, you are afraid to even express your feeling to one you love until there is nothing but regret is left.”
“Sometimes I wonder if he has a philosophy. Maybe even a worldview. I'd like to sit down with him and pick his brain, just a tiny bit somewhere in the frontal lobe to get a taste of his thoughts. But he's too much of a toughguy to ever be that vulnerable. - R on M”
“Sometimes I wonder if he never wished for me because he already had everything.”
“Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.”
“Sometimes I wonder if he were raised a Red and I a Gold if he wouldn't have ended up a better man than I am now, and I a worse man than he ever could be.
For some reason I think I could have been capable of great evil.”
Source: Golden Son
“Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country.”
“Sometimes I wonder if… I have the ability to be so out of sync with myself that both my body and mind seek to annihilate each other. Sometimes I wonder if all of us metaphorically throw our bodies from cliffs every day of the week.”
Source: New Animal
“Sometimes I wonder if I'm nothing more than the sum of who [my parents] were. Even worse, I worry that I don't add up nearly so well, that I'm just a shadowed reflection of them. Now that question hounds me a lot more often than I like to admit.”
Source: Taking You Home
“Sometimes I wonder if I’m the only twelve-year-old in the world.”
Source: The Electric Kingdom
“Sometimes I wonder if I met everyone in my life in the wrong order.”
“Sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't leaving being musician because I use to like it when noone came to see me playing, because I didn't feel any pressure. I can enjoy myself and probably play better. Sometimes when I play, people expect something of me, and I'm not always able to to that. Quite often. So I get totaly nervous”
“Sometimes I wonder if I was born as a lesbian in order to escape Vietnam or if when my family escaped Vietnam, I became a lesbian or if the ocean or nước mắm (fish sauce) turned me into a lesbian.”
Source: The Italy Letters
“Sometimes I wonder, if I was Graham, maybe I would have wanted the baby, too. If I knew someone else would raise it, someone else would let go of their own dreams, someone else would sacrifice and keep everything together while I went and did what I wanted and came back on weekends... maybe then I might want a baby, too.”
Source: Daisy Jones & The Six
“Sometimes I wonder if I would've been more successful if I wasn't acting and I concentrated on other things. But I love being on set. I love working with my 100 crew members.”
“Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.”
“Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.”
“Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right mind. Then it passes off and I'm as intelligent as ever.”
Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
“Sometimes I wonder if it does exist such a thing called personality.”
“Sometimes I wonder if life is all about one moment. Everything before and everything after is about that one moment, and we are all stuck there.”
Source: Love, Aubrey
“Sometimes I wonder if love is enough, or if there are levels of love.”
Source: The Marble Collector
“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”
“Sometimes I wonder if my heart is like a black hole--it's so dense that there's no room for light, but that doesn't mean it can't still suck me in.”
Source: My Heart and Other Black Holes
“Sometimes I wonder if other people think about death - frequently, or just in general. I wonder if they think about it casually, like they’re thinking of the weather, or if they think of it lying awake at night, haunted by their own thoughts. I wonder… if they do think about it, do they ever think about their own death - the when, the how?”
Source: Where We Belong
“Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.”
“Sometimes I wonder if the bars make the monsters and not the other way around.”
Source: Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
“Sometimes I wonder if the cost of my dream is less about the efforts to achieve it and more about disappointment I’ll experience if it doesn’t happen. But then I remember that the nature of a dream is such that it is worth dreaming even if it never comes true.”
“Sometimes I wonder if the human race isn't collectively as mad as a sack of door knobs.”
“Sometimes I wonder if the lessons in life will ever stop but then why would you want to remain ignorant?”
“Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the soul with its myriad tiny nerve endings that notices the neglected pathos, poignancy and practicality that lies at the heart of life. It's as if the media are somehow irritated and envious that anonymous people should have the quiet brilliance of their rich and sustainable inner lives.”
“Sometimes I wonder if there is really goodwill in the world to worry about saving human beings, or whether we are just using that as camouflage for our own interests, the self-centered drive for more profits.”
“Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.”
“Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.”
Source: This is Love: The Extraordinary Story of Jesus
“Sometimes I wonder if we ever truly let anyone completely in. The desire for another human being to know you, all of you, all the pieces, even the ones you’re ashamed of — is huge. But too often, we sit down and sort through the pieces only picking out the pretty ones, leaving the ugly ones behind, not realizing that choosing not to share with someone else is like committing a crime against our very soul”
Source: Toxic
“Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.”
“Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.”
Source: Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945
“Sometimes I wonder if we should just be friends, so that I don't have to worry about ever losing him.”
Source: Love and Other Words
“Sometimes I wonder if you’re even fae. Your mindset is so different compared to others. I suspect you are an alien.”
Source: Masked Temptation
“Sometimes I wonder if, instead of falling madly in love, we should aspire to fall sanely in love. But then, what would be the point?”
Source: Twisted
“Sometimes I wonder on how can we be allergic to dust when the universe is full of it?”
Source: Random Cosmos
“Sometimes I wonder, that one missing sock after doing laundry, is the smart one. After being unhappy for so long, it finally walks away from a frayed, worn-out relationship.”
“Sometimes, i wonder that you broke me out of curiosity
just to peek, what's inside.”
“Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do
'Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues.”