“When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say it at length, the more slowly it melts, the better quality it is.”
“For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.”
“Here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?”
“It only takes one person, one voice from somewhere beyond, to save a life.”
“All our lives we postpone everything that can be postponed; perhaps we all have the certainty, deep inside, that we are immortal and sooner or later every man will do everything, know all there is to know.”
“And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed, proof of innocence. If there were no paper, Carter felt, the entire judicial system would collapse and disappear.”
“Per quanto ammirevole, il tuo bisogno impellente di sacrificare l esistenza per il bene di un altra persona poteva dipendere dal fatto che quando avevi la vita interamente nelle tue mani, non sapevi che fartene. Immolarsi a volte è un inutile scappatoia.”
“In true love, one has no reservations.True love is unquestionable,indisputable and totally recognizable.”
“With domineering hand she moves the turning wheel, Like currents in a treacherous bay swept to and fro: Her ruthless will has just deposed once fearful kings While trustless still, from low she lifts a conquered head; No cries of misery she hears, no tears she heeds, But steely hearted laughs at groans her deeds have wrung. Such is a game she plays, and so she tests her strength; Of mighty power she makes parade when one short hour Sees happiness from utter desolation grow. (A Consolation of Philosophy, Book II, translated by V.E. Watts)”
“Even the highest branches cannot deny that they have roots in a common bond.”
“The deepest and darkest dungeons that we are ever flung into are the dungeons of the mind”
“To which hand do I choose to strike with when both hands are guided by the same heart?”
“It is hard to hear the truth from people who get paid to distort it.”
“Some people build houses others build people; of the two I would rather be of the latter”
“No matter how far you have gone down the road its never too late to stop and reinvent yourself”
“Frustration is having a debate with a blind man on shades of red”
“Am Anfang war Gott? It may have been true, but it was not germane.”