John Quotes
you’re gone andyour unfinished poemlies alone on my desk—empty of tears, I only hope it rains today
A condensed Shakespeare with all of the dull parts removed, leaving only the great moments of drama: ghosts, and bloodied daggers, and dying kings.
...I love Shakespeare, but sometimes....his images - If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head....
...I'm constantly agitated, restless - I work moments like worry beads until I see your face...
This guy was beyond lucky. He was Midas with a better attorney, or the owner of a Monkey’s Paw version 2.0, or Richard Cory on Prozac.
And what were the rules at St. Cloud's? What were Larch's rules? Which rules did Dr. Larch observe, which ones did he break, or replace--and with what confidence?
Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved.
The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her
After sounding a lot like other people in my decades of past I have found my own voice when I realized I needed Christ and in so doing I am becoming just like Him as time marches on.
While aloofness might fascinate others and makes them respect you, it will never allow for intimacy and profound relationships.
That didn't happen, of course. Things never happenedlike I imagined them.
There is no greater place for damage (than marriage) because there is no greater place for glory.
Most men wait to move until victory is guaranteed.
What you love is your own love. It's not love, it's selfishness. It's not me you think of, but what you feel about me.
When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.
What difference does it make whether your work is appreciated or not? The work will still be yours. Anyway, most of us are only appreciated after we are dead.
Our listeners asked us:"What is chaos?"We're answering:"We do not comment on economic policy.
I'm sorry, Cullen. I really am. I know this sucks. But you're better off anyway. And you'll be fine. You needed me. Now someone else needs me.
She knows what it's like to love someone who cannot love you back. Someone who needs you, holds you, yes, but someone who will never know that love is the knife in your heart.
We cry to God for blessings but we do not really want him. He has to teach us that he is the greatest blessing of all.
Inez and I had been in the same book club for a while. She once told me that literary theory was reading without imagination, and I’ve loved her ever since.
...I pray this winter be gentle and kind - a season of rest from the wheel of the mind...
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Our fate is determined in rooms that must be easy to clean
In the end, age in numbers is no more than an empty bag. The only way to truly tell a person's years is by examing the contents they have filled it with.
If the inevitably of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does.
...if George Washington founded the nation, John Marshall defined it.
If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.
You and I are just kids. We've got the best and the worst of it in front of us
Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.
I'll be your blanket, baby. Wrap yourself up in me. Let me give you shelter, in the winter of this world.
...I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists...
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.