Quotation Hunt
Looking for one quote for my yearbook, that describes my highschool years.
“We love them knowing their weakness, their follies, the imperfections, love them all the more. It may be for that reason. It is not the perfect but the imperfect, who have need of love.” - Oscar Wilde
“If there was less sympathy in the world there would be less trouble in the world.” - Oscar Wilde
“Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity.” - Oscar Wilde
“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.” - Oscar Wilde
“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute inconherence, their absurb want of meaning, their entire lack of style.” - Oscar Wilde
"How strange to have failed as a social creature-even criminals do not fail that way-they are the law’s “Loyal Opposition,” so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before" - Willa Carther
"obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken." - Adolf Hitler
"Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change." - H.G.Wells
"There is no good and evil, there is only power..." - J.K. Rowling as Quirrell in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” - Pablo Picasso
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.” - Oscar Wilde
"Everything human is pathetic." - Mark Twain
"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." - Henry David Thoreau
"Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real “you” never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces." -Shashi Deshpande
"For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them. And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same. And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again. But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend hoping for nothing again." - Luke 7:32-35
"What are heavy? Sea-sand and sorrow; / What are brief? Today and tomorrow; / What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth; / What are deep? The ocean and truth." -Christina Georgina Rossetti
"When we die, the measure of our immortality begins. Immortality is how long we live in others' memory" - Alice Wong
"I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief." - C.S. Lewis
"I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating." - Alan Paton
"I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That’s a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try." - F. Scott Fitxgerald
“We love them knowing their weakness, their follies, the imperfections, love them all the more. It may be for that reason. It is not the perfect but the imperfect, who have need of love.” - Oscar Wilde
“If there was less sympathy in the world there would be less trouble in the world.” - Oscar Wilde
“Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity.” - Oscar Wilde
“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.” - Oscar Wilde
“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute inconherence, their absurb want of meaning, their entire lack of style.” - Oscar Wilde
"How strange to have failed as a social creature-even criminals do not fail that way-they are the law’s “Loyal Opposition,” so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before" - Willa Carther
"obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken." - Adolf Hitler
"Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change." - H.G.Wells
"There is no good and evil, there is only power..." - J.K. Rowling as Quirrell in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” - Pablo Picasso
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.” - Oscar Wilde
"Everything human is pathetic." - Mark Twain
"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." - Henry David Thoreau
"Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real “you” never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces." -Shashi Deshpande
"For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them. And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same. And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again. But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend hoping for nothing again." - Luke 7:32-35
"What are heavy? Sea-sand and sorrow; / What are brief? Today and tomorrow; / What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth; / What are deep? The ocean and truth." -Christina Georgina Rossetti
"When we die, the measure of our immortality begins. Immortality is how long we live in others' memory" - Alice Wong
"I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief." - C.S. Lewis
"I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating." - Alan Paton
"I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That’s a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try." - F. Scott Fitxgerald