Caitlyn Murphy > Caitlyn's Quotes

“The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.”
― Henry Murger

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
― Benjamin Spock

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
― Sharon Pollock

“O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!”
― Gary Snyder

“In love, no question is ever preposterous.”
― Andre Brink, Before I Forget

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”
― Margaret Drabble

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“Numbers constitute the only universal language.”
― Nathanael West

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
― William Butler Yeats

“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”
― Djuna Barnes

“We're all in this game together.”
― William Styron