It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.
—Mary Boykin Chesnut, 1865
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The dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. They can come to us, but till we die we cannot go to them. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1888Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.
—Erich Fromm, 1947I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
—Lord Byron, 1813It costs a lot to make a person look this cheap.
—Dolly Parton, 1994As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.
—H.M. Tomlinson, 1912Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
—John Huston, 1950The more sifted, the finer the flour; the more often repeated, the rougher the gossip.
—Korean proverbMost vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
—Alexander the Great, c. 323 BCOne’s friends are divided into two classes, those one knows because one must and those one knows because one mustn’t.
—Sybil Taylor, 1922