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#1

“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

tags: insanity, love, marriage

1732 likes

#2

“For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.”
― Halldór Laxness

901 likes

#3

“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

2629 likes

#4

“Make me immortal with a kiss.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

tags: kiss

1683 likes

#5

“Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys

tags: dinner

728 likes

#6

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

tags: art, love, profound

3552 likes

#7

“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

tags: definitions, humor, quotations, quotes, satire

1227 likes

#8

“I have seen an evil thing this night,' he said; 'I have seen how the dead drink the blood of the living. And the blood is the life.”
― Francis Marion Crawford, For the Blood is the Life and Other Stories

tags: blood, horror, vampire

16 likes

#9

“A cool breeze stirred my hair at that moment, as the night wind began to come down from the hills, but it felt like a breath from another world.”
― Francis Marion Crawford, For the Blood is the Life and Other Stories

tags: night, wind

35 likes

#10

“Fill your mouth with pebbles, and howl at the sea, if you cannot do anything else.”
― F. Marion Crawford, Wandering Ghosts

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#11

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant

tags: books

2849 likes

#12

“Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan

1561 likes

#13

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

1852 likes

#14

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

tags: inspirational, missed-chances

3418 likes

#15

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: eating-reading

8619 likes

#16

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-reading

8494 likes

#17

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-wicked-reading

9727 likes

#18

“This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

1387 likes

#19

“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
― William Blake

1396 likes

#20

“A promise made is a debt unpaid”
― Robert W. Service, The Cremation of Sam McGee

tags: debt, obligation, promise

43 likes

#21

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom

11273 likes

#22

“A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.”
― Emily Dickinson

1470 likes

#23

“Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.”
― Mary Leakey

1890 likes

#24

“From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: heartache, loss, love

3088 likes

#25

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

tags: life

9169 likes

#26

“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

1877 likes

#27