Tonight the lilacs magnify The easy passion, the ever-ready love Of the lover that lies within us and we breathe An odor evoking nothing, absolute. We encounter in the dead middle of the night The purple odor, the abundant bloom.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

T. S. Eliot

People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

Freda Adler

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Rosalind Russell

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

William Makepeace Thackeray

You're too big for another heart beat, unable to sync with my capricious heart beating.

Coco J. Ginger

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

Horace

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

Jeanette Winterson

Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time.

Joshua Foer

Things are seldom what they seem.

W. S. Gilbert

I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.

Nick Hornby

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

Paul Ricoeur