Gillian > Gillian's Quotes

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

“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

“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.”
― Aldous Huxley, Themes and Variations

“Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the Truth is that we are kind for the same reason as we are cruel, in order that we may enhance the sense of our own Power....”
― Aldous Huxley, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison

“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.”
― George Eliot

“The lovely flowers
embarrass me.
They make me regret
I am not a bee...”
― Emily Dickinson

“The best mirror is an old friend.”
― George Herbert