Liz Jensen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

  • If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

  • Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

  • Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

  • Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

  • If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

  • I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.

  • You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.

  • In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.

  • Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.