I am bigger than anything that can happen to me.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Eugene Ionesco

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

E. M. Forster

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments -- we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

Malcolm Bradbury

I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.

Jane Fonda

Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.

Edward Gibbon

I am not even an atheist so much as an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful. Reviewing the false claims of religion I do not wish, as some sentimental materialists affect to wish, that they were true. I do not envy believers their faith. I am relieved to think that the whole story is a sinister fairy tale; life would be miserable if what the faithful affirmed was actually true.... There may be people who wish to live their lives under cradle-to-grave divine supervision, a permanent surveillance and monitoring. But I cannot imagine anything more horrible or grotesque.

Christopher Hitchens

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Simple the life, simpler will be your instincts, the laws that govern universe will obey your simplicity.

Santosh Kalwar

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion

Friedrich Nietzsche

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

Phyllis Diller

The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.

Jodi Picoult

Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore.

Cassandra Clare