Joy Lewis > Joy's Quotes

“We are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood.”
― Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood

“Ink, a Drug.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations