Laura Jones > Laura Jones's Quotes

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.”
― George R.R. Martin

“I need a world filled with wonder, with awe, with awful things. I couldn't exist in a world devoid of marvels, even if the marvels are terrible marvels. Even if they frighten me to consider them.”
― Caitlin R. Kiernan

“Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone.”
― Caitlin R. Kiernan

“Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
― Jean Racine

“A forbidding-looking place, certainly, but that only made it seem the more pitiful. It was the refuge of twenty-two men who, at that very moment, were camped on a precarious, storm-washed spit of beach, as helpless and isolated from the outside world as if they were on another planet. Their plight was known only to the six men in this ridiculously little boat, whose responsibility now was to prove that all the laws of chance were wrong—and return with help. It was a staggering trust.”
― Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“عصر ما به موجب ذات خود، عصر تعمّق و فهم است، امّا از شور و شوق خالی است. همه کس همه چیز را می داند، همه کس می داند به چه راهی باید رفت و هر راه با راه دیگر چه تفاوت های جزئی ای دارد، امّا هیچ کس اراده ی حرکت ندارد.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age A Literary Review

“Best not to ask "What is it?" until you finish rolling in it.”
― Francesco Marciuliano, I Could Chew on This: And Other Poems by Dogs