Lily S. > Lily S. 's Quotes

“In Paris on a chilly evening late in October of 1985 I first became fully aware that the struggle with the disorder in my mind--a struggle which had
engaged me for several months--might have a fatal outcome.”
― William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.”
― Michel Houellebecq

“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“Bool! The end.”
― Stephen King, Lisey's Story

“Every state protects the privileges of the powerful.”
― Colin Ward, Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction

“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“We are surrounded by story.”
― Alice McDermott

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor

“My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.”
― Oliver Sacks

“That which you believe becomes your world.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence.”
― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason

“The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.”
― Marquis de Sade, Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain