In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

William Butler Yeats

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

Oscar Wilde

Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for we are their children.

Carl Sagan

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient.

Michel de Montaigne

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

Oscar Wilde

The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately, be very appealing. If you are inclined to donate yourself to science, you should not let images of dissection or dismemberment put you off. They are no more or less gruesome, in my opinion, than ordinary decay or the sewing shut of your jaws via your nostrils for a funeral viewing.

Mary Roach

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.

Ellen Hopkins

I don't want technology to take me so far that I don't have to use my brain anymore. It's like GPS taking over and losing your internal compass. It's always got to be tactile, still organic.

Andrew Bird

He kill them with they love, John said. They love for each other. You see how it was? I nodded, incapable of speech. He smiled. The tears were flowing again, but he smiled. That's how it is every day, he said, all over the world.

Stephen King

Everything transitory is but an image.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this

Blaise Pascal