You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.
Persistence is the key to solving most mysteries.
He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.'
I lean over. My hair smothers him.
'Then you should never have been born,' I say.
John: 'Have mercy. I don't want to die!'
Sita: 'Then you should never have been born.
No religion is perfect, not after man gets through with it.
I'd seen him around town for a year or so before he made a move on me. I'd heard good and bad things about him. One friend said he was just out for sex. Another said he was a romantic at heart. What the hell, I thought. I needed sex and romance in my life. Sometimes I believe I would have taken one without the other.
I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and scarred world with no air.
A person is limited by his conception of himself, nothing more. If you really knew who you were, you could stop the sun from rising tomorrow.
For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.
Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned.
There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.
People with power always take advantage of those without power.