Philisophical Quotes

“Don't bite off more than you can chew because nobody looks attractive spitting it back out.”
― Carroll Bryant

“The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than what you already are.”
― Carroll Bryant

“Know who you are, and be it. Know what you want, and go out and get it!”
― Carroll Bryant

“When people say they hate life, to what are they comparing it to? The alternative isn't any more appealing.”
― Carroll Bryant

“We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again."
~Fiddler, pg. 558”
― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates

“I know that in everybody's life must come days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savour. The sunniest day has its clouds;but one must not forget the sun is there all the time.”
― L.M. Montgomery

“With lacquerware there is an extra beauty in that moment between removing the lid and lifting the bowl to the mouth, when one gazes at the still, silent liquid in the dark depths of the bowl, its colour hardly differing from that of the bowl itself. What lies within the darkness one cannot distinguish, but the palm senses the gentle movements of the liquid, vapour rises from within, forming droplets on the rim, and the fragrance carried upon the vapour brings a delicate anticipation ... a moment of mystery, it might almost be called, a moment of trance.”
― Junichiro Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows

“Believe in the wonderment of life, the magic of love, and the reality of death.”
― Carroll Bryant

“Hope is believing in something that eludes you. It's a desperate feeling in a desperate situation.”
― Carroll Bryant

“You are the guiding star of someone's existence”
― Carroll Bryant

“The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”
― Lee Martin, The Bright Forever

“Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the antidote to shame.”
― Uncle Iroh

“I feel like I am either on the cusp of something great, or standing on the edge of my abyss, discovering something brand new, or uncovering somebody elses lost imagination.”
― Carroll Bryant

“There is no need to masturbate your brain, just to ejaculate your thoughts all over the place”
― Carroll Bryant

“Knowledge may be power, but half of what I know I wish I could forget.”
― Carroll Bryant

“You are the only one who can.”
― Carroll Bryant

“Judge Fowler knew Clara was not long for the world--it was the manner of how she seized everything that gave her away. Clara was vibrant in youth, beautiful and radiant upon her wedding night beyond compare! But death cannot be masked from those who can see the outline of its features scribbled in the margins of another’s being.”
― Kevin Moccia, The Beagle and the Hare

“That golden pin ball of a hare must be fresh dead! Thirty eight rabbits, seven squirrels, and one kitty cat D.O.A--MEEEEOOOWWW! Bippity bop-bop-bop bippity boo! I’m not no swineherd, my flocks a dead zoo! Won’t crunch on no crumpets, I slurp bacon stew! Ain’t dyin’ in one life, “my brothaaaa”, I’m livin’ two! Yo! Everything melts like grilled cheese in the grease of Old Blue! Old Blue! Old Blue! Everything melts like grilled cheese in the grease of Old Blue!” The Old Blue the character raps of…is money.”
― Kevin Moccia, The Beagle and the Hare

“The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on the slates. "What are they doing?" Alice whispered to the Gryphon. "They can't have anything to put down yet, before the trial's begun."
"They're putting down their names," the Gryphon whispered in reply, "for fear they should forget them before the end of the trial.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“... never engage to play with a troubled mind or excited emotions. Lucidity of mind is crucial and once once's emotions become engaged in the play all is lost.....”
― Emery Lee, Fortune's Son

“Perhaps Clarence’s knowledge of the enormous day-to-day expense of the war machine was too much for a man who’s own father had insisted, “Never to waste salt on a radish!”
― Kevin Moccia, The Beagle and the Hare

“The male rabbits began chattering their teeth against another’s, filling the room with a spastic, scratching sound, similar to a full shift of skate blades on a puck chase, cutting fresh ice.
“An animal on a farm has no worth if it isn’t useful. I earned my right to survive--I’m named!”
― Kevin Moccia, The Beagle and the Hare

“The cynics—well aware that there is nobody who despises the imagination so thoroughly as the dreamer”
― Yukio Mishima, Sun and Steel

“When the golden rabbit had safely emerged out of the forbidden passage, he pondered the direction back to his lair. “How can it be I don’t live where I used to live anymore? How can that be? Alright then….alright. What a strange dream…I feel as though I’ve been eaves dropping in tempo…but not in time!” The hare hopped off, humming passages from Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue”.”
― Kevin Moccia, The Beagle and the Hare

“The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time.”
― Frank Herbert

“People are like dirt. They either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.”
― Plato

“Sometimes, I feel like they’re—Like I’ve gotta—Like I’m just pretending.”
“If you pretend to be something long enough, that’s what you become.”
― Marc Arginteanu

“He squeezed the telephone receiver until his knuckles were white. He wanted to smash it on the desk. Is this really how I want to be spending the limited time I have on this Earth? He gently lowered the phone into the cradle.”
― Marc Arginteanu, Azazel’s Public House

“People pursue fame, wealth, and power all their
lives. But what a man needed the most, was someone who really loved him and treated him well for a lifetime, single-minded.”
― Rifa Coolheart

“The beginning was the end and the end was the beginning.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder Series 4 Books Set (Paperback) - A Good Girl's Guide to Murder; Good Girl, Bad Blood; As Good as Dead; Kill Joy