Cady Wang > Cady's Quotes

“Still, we will be told, one cannot be in beauty and yet fail to see it.”
― Plotinus, [Ennead: Bk. 5] (By: Plotinus) [published: September, 1984]

“I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“He can't value you more than you value yourself.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“Time always flowed smoothly for me at my godmother's side; not with tumultuous swiftness, but blandly, like the gliding of a full river through a plain.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“In reading a text, one must open it out both to what went into it and to what its author excluded.”
― Edward Said

“The most beautiful part of your body
is where it’s headed. & remember,
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.”
― Ocean Vuong

“Whether it is better or worse for him there, where he awakened after this real death, whether he was disappointed or found there the very thing he expected, we shall all soon learn.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Master And Man

“I would prefer not to.”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

“The clan is my blood, and the Pillar is its master.
On my honor, my life, and my jade.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade City

“I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you're born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“We don’t handle this world. We make it handle us.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade Legacy

“What else can I be," returned the uncle, "when I live in such a world of fools as this? Merry Christmas! Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

“And moving thro' a mirror clear
That hangs before her all the year,
Shadows of the world appear.”
― Lord Tennyson

“even if I’m dying, until I actually die, I am still living.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Yet the paradox is that scientific methodology is the product of human hands and thus cannot reach some permanent truth. We build scientific theories to organize and manipulate the world, to reduce phenomena into manageable units. Science is based on reproducibility and manufactured objectivity. As strong as that makes its ability to generate claims about matter and energy, it also makes scientific knowledge inapplicable to the existential, visceral nature of human life, which is unique and subjective and unpredictable. Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“I could either study meaning or I could experience it.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Say his power lies in words or looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count ‘em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“They scarcely seemed to enter the city, for the city rather seemed to spring up around them, and encompass them of its own act.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.”
― Confucius

“...imagination, its splendid remoteness...”
― Terry Eagleton

“The Master said, "The gentleman is ashamed of his word outstripping his deed.”
― Analects