God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
—John Lennon, 1970Quotes
I have been a stranger here in my own land all my life.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCOf my friends, I am the only one I have left.
—Terence, 161 BCIf they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it, most people will think it wrong.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
—Gregory VII, c. 1085It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1977Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946Style is the image of character.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1789Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1908The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.
—Édouard Manet, c. 1860