Madison > Madison's Quotes

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
― Joseph Campbell

“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
― Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

“Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
― Jean de La Fontaine, Fables

“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
― Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries

“We're all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.”
― Tennessee Williams

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
― Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby

“It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby