Brad Barlow > Brad's Quotes

“Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are all noble pursuits, and
necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
― Dead Poet’s Society

“Two people pulling each other into Salvation is the only theme I find worthwhile. —E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book”
― Sarah Winman, Still Life

“Art versus humanity is not the question, Ulysses. One doesn’t exist without the other. Art is the antidote.”
― Sarah Winman, Still Life

“and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Where there are bees there are flowers, and where there are flowers there is new life and hope.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
― Mark Twain

“And for two hours the wine was poured, the cheese cut, and the two men talked. Of what? Who knows? Of love, of war, of the past. And they listened with hearts instead of ears, and in the candle-lit kitchen three floors up in an old palazzo, death was put on hold.”
― Sarah Winman, Still Life

“Life’s but a walking shadow, Ulysses. I know, said Ulysses, holding him close to his chest. I know, I know. And I do love nothing in the world . . . so well . . . as you.”
― Sarah Winman, Still Life

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Molly knows the secret to a long walk. Never think about the destination. Just think about the air in your lungs, the motion of your arms and legs. There is a rhythm to it, and once you have found it that rhythm can tick-tock through time forever.”
― Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies

“Kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind. - Dr Wayne W. Dyer”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything,”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“she sees how happiness hides in the humdrum, how it abides in the everyday toing and froing as though happiness were a thing that should not be seen, as though it were a note that cannot be heard until it sounds from the past...”
― Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

“and the prophet sings not of the end of the world but of what has been done and what will be done and what is being done to some but not others, that the world is always ending over and over again in one place but not another and that the end of the world is always a local event, it comes to your country and visits your town and knocks on the door of your house and becomes to others but some distant warning, a brief report on the news, an echo of events that has passed into folklore,”
― Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

“Sooner or later, of course, reality reveals itself, he says, you can borrow for a time against reality but reality is always waiting, patiently, silently, to exact a price and level the scales——”
― Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

“he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“Men and boys should be capable of beautiful things.”
― Sarah Winman, Tin Man

“I try hard to be liked, I always have. I try hard to lessen people’s pain. I try hard because I can’t face my own.”
― Sarah Winman, Tin Man

“Everything was real, not perfect. And yet that's what had made it so perfect.”
― Sarah Winman, Tin Man

“But it was my humanness that led me to seek, that's all. Led us all to seek. A simple need to belong somewhere.”
― Sarah Winman, Tin Man

“company at any age is good.”
― Sarah Winman, Tin Man

“Thank you is a phrase that is fundamental to life, starting with family life. Together with please and sorry, it’s a key that opens the way to a well-lived life, to a life of peace.”
― Pope Francis, Hope: The Autobiography

“If we want to be able to understand how peace is made, and have the strength to make it, let us all be childlike.”
― Pope Francis, Hope: The Autobiography

“There's no better way of explaining happiness than to make someone happy.”
― Pope Francis, Hope: The Autobiography

“One of the great emergencies of our time is to honor the divine mandate to protect our common home, and at the same time to defend the sanctity and dignity of every human life.”
― Pope Francis, Hope: The Autobiography

“The first breath of autumn was in the air, a prodigal feeling, a feeling of wanting, taking, and keeping before it is too late.”
― J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country