Hugh Quotes

just know that it takes a bit of courage to unlearn that shame, and to be there for others when they try to unlearn that shame, and that it all gets easier after you feel how healthy it is.

Sleep was a vehicle for passing the time, for avoiding the present. It was a trolley for the depressed, the impatient, and the dying.

There’s a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don’t want to live, you’re really just empty.

Imagination just wasn't up to the task of understanding unique and foreign sensations. It knew only how to dampen or augment what it already knew. - Juliette, Pg. 139

If you want to help people we have to dive into people wade into the sea of humanity.

The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.

If the lies don't kill you, the truth will.

He continued to see inevitable events from the past as avoidable, long after they'd taken their course.

My gosh, I love food. If I wasn’t an actor, I could be a completely different body shape right now.

This was the mark of deep infatuation, he thought: the desire to watch a woman talk just to see her lips move, to be around her.

Even water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.

To impatient youth, all things took for ever and any kind of waiting was torture. Pg. 221

Here was the love and violence in the hearts of men, all for their women

Egos clash. That's the nature of egos.Treat these outbursts as sneezing fits.

His impatience for sleep often frightened that very sleep away.

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

I don't believe in a lot of baggage. It's such a nuisance. Life's too short to fuss with it. And it isn't really necessary

It's tougher to look than to leap.

The idea of saving anything was folly, a life especially. No life had been truly saved, not in the history of mankind. They were merely prolonged. Everything comes to an end.

I had too many things to say, and too small a brain to sort them out with.

She could tell he was exhausted, maybe half as much as she was, but he was still willing to do anything for her. It made her sad, someone being this loyal to her.

It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.

This was all horribly wrong. This was red wine with fish. This was a man wearing a dinner jacket and brown shoes. This was as wrong as things get.

Men do recognise at last that a supernatural Religion involves an absolute authority, and that Private Judgment in matters of faith is nothing else than the beginning of disintegration.

Next time I will ...""From now on I will ..."- What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?

Happiness comes from within a man from some curious adjustment to life.

When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.

An artist has to take life as he finds it. Life by itself is formless wherever it is. Art must give it form.

The whole history of the Canadian north can be divided into two periods - before and after the aeroplane.

The Greeks who knew everything understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.

The Ottawa river flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec.

The trouble with this whole country is that it's divided up into little puddles with big fish in each one of them.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live life changes.

Nothing ever tasted any better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to but more of the same.

Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso.

In all science error precedes the truth and it is better it should go first than last.

The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.

Happiness comes from ... some curious adjustment to life.

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and after these the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

Play the man Master Ridley we shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England as I trust shall never be put out.

Grace is given of God but knowledge is bought in the market.

I like a man with faults especially when he knows it. To err is human- I'm uncomfortable around gods.

To avail yourself of His certain wisdom ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him for that will never be necessary.

Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life " but that now is all there is of my life.

I live now and only now and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.

Truth for him was a moving target he never aimed for the bull and rarely pierced the outer ring.

I'm not a hopeless romantic. I'm quite the reverse. I'm a nasty piece of work, an ego maniac.

My mother was a teacher.