She rebuked herself for this thought. she was, she saw, always having thoughts for which she rebuked herself. It then flashed across her mind that the thoughts for which she rebuked herself almost...

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.

Man without compassion is the coldest thing ever in this universe!

Since Genesis 3 we have been addicted to setting our sights on something, someone, smaller than Jesus.

How would I know what Jesus would have done? That fella was a mass of contradictions as far as I can see. One minute he says to turn the other cheek, the next minute he's having a big strop and...

Science gives man what he needs. But magic gives him what he wants.

Circumstances cannot change how you feel. When you truly love someone – on a level that goes deeper than your mind, deeper than your memories, all the way to the very thing that makes you human –...

That's why you have to go and guilt him for all the trouble. It can't be your fault that you lost your memory if he wasn't smart enough to tell you about the wine.

To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable!

What man wanted a woman without fire, and vice - versa?

Men are private. This I have learned. They are whole continents of privacy

Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike.

... and then she realized: they WERE all alike!

Despite this, his prejudice against helmets remained unchanged. You had your pride, Ganelon had told him once, or you had nothing.

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

People are seen through the stained glass window of our imagination. { "The hidden sides of his character" }

Perhaps I shouldn't like it so much, but I've always been one for finding beauty in the ugliest stories.

She's known sadness. That's what it is. I only just thought that as I wrote it. She's known sadness, and it has made her kind.

The insanity of shameful desires!

What was grief but an extended tantrum to be salved by sex and candy.

We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.

No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor.

Nature endowed human beings with two teleological components that define our essential humanity: consciousness and memory. Consciousness enables people to make decisions, and memory allows us to learn...

Our applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins.

The difference between people lies within their beliefs.

We are all sinful. Trouble is that some men consider themselves less sinful than others or holier than others.

As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning to use the brand - new gift of language. Being so...

He studied the woman before him, not as lovely as she once was, ordinary in appearance, scarred by living, abandoned by many, breathtakingly to be near and altogether unforgettable. 'I have no...

She {Mme des Laumes} belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half feels about the people it does not know is replaced by an interest in the people it does.