Lily > Lily's Quotes

“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.”
― William C. Faulkner

“If a story is in you, it has to come out.”
― William Faulkner

“Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar...”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.”
― William Faulkner

“I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters

“I haven't had any coffee this morning. Will you ask them to make me some?”
― Anton Chekov, THREE SISTERS

“Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone,
I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One.
I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.”
― Alexander Hamilton

“Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.”
― Alexander Hamilton, Writings

“There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism”
― Alexander Hamilton

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“What is done in love is done well.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

“I am sorry for you with all my heart. But you cannot blame us, for you came to kill us if you could.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

“My name is Echo. I dream of cats with stars in their fur. ”
― Erin Hunter, Firestar's Quest

“The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.”
― Erin Hunter

“There’s more to being a warrior than killing. A true warrior — the best warrior — isn’t cruel or mean. He doesn’t claw an enemy who can’t fight back. Where’s the honor in that?”
― Erin Hunter, Forest of Secrets

“Love is awful. It’s awful. It’s painful. It’s frightening. It makes you doubt yourself, judge yourself, distance yourself from the other people in your life. Makes you selfish. Makes you creepy. It makes you obsessed with your hair. Makes you cruel. Makes you say and do things you never thought you would do.

It’s all any of us want, and it’s hell when we get there. So no wonder it’s something we don’t want to do on our own.

I was taught if we’re born with love, then life is about choosing the right place to put it. People talk about that a lot. It 'feeling right'. 'When it feels right, it’s easy.' But I’m not sure that’s true. It takes strength to know what’s right.

And love isn’t something that weak people do. Being a romantic takes a hell of a lot of hope. I think what they mean is... When you find somebody that you love... it feels like hope.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

“People are all we've got.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

“(gently)
It'll pass.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“In our society, those who have the best knowledge of what is happening are also those who are furthest from seeing the world as it is. In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“There's terrible evil in the world. It comes from men,' said Holly. 'Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

“Because the people we love are not entirely knowable. Even to themselves. But we love them anyway.

The only other choice is to live without love, alone.”
― Stephanie Dray, My Dear Hamilton

“Because words were his weapon; silence was mine. And he couldn’t win an argument if I didn’t start one.”
― Stephanie Dray, My Dear Hamilton