"And there will be a time, not for long, a month is enough, or a week, when every single person will be able to completely fulfill what they were meant to be—everything their bodies and souls have offered them, not what other people have dumped on them."

-- David Grossman

#Long Quotes #People Quotes #Soul Quotes

“His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.”
“People try to contain things by putting them into categories. I don't.”

Source : Source: www.artmonthly.co.uk
“Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.”
“Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public pure cold water.”

Source : "Sibelius: The Symphonies" by Cecil Gray, London: Oxford University Press, (p. 56), 1935.
“It's better to break a man's leg than his heart.”
“Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of such specimens is sheer vanity and inquisitiveness. I do not presume to say; but we find in our mountains the rarest animals, shells, mussels, and corals embalmed in stone, as it were, living specimens of which are now being sought in vain throughout Europe. These stones alone whisper in the midst of general silence.”
“I have led her home, my love, my only friend. There is none like her, none, And never yet so warmly ran my blood, And sweetly, on and on Calming itself to the long-wished for end, Full to the banks, close on the prom- ised good.”
“Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty.”

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