I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.
- Alfred de Musset
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"Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air."
- Pablo Neruda
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"We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life."
- P.D. James, The Children of Men
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"I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves."
- Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
- Terry Pratchett, Diggers (Bromeliad Trilogy, #2)
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"The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
- Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
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“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
- Carl Sagan
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“What if she was supposed to be a painter, but no one ever gave her a brush?”
- Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost
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“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
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