"The only justification of rebellion is success."

-- Thomas Reed

#Rebellion Quotes #Justification Quotes

“To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent. Once these expressions put in an appearance, no matter how solemn the place, the silent cathedrals of melancholy crumble, leaving nothing but an impression of fatuousness. It is curious, but the cathedrals of melancholy are not necessarily demolished if one can replace the vulgar "What a messy business it is to be fallen for" by the more literary "What uneasiness lies in being loved.”

Source : Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.47, New Directions Publishing
“One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.”
“Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!”
“But the blessed Bishop of Geneva taught his nuns another kind of prayer, which even the sick can make: to remain peacefully in the presence of God, manifesting our needs to Him with no other mental effort, like a poor person who uncovers his sores and by this means is more effective in inciting passers-by to do him some good than if he wore himself out trying to convince them of his need.”
“Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly uptill now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.”
“Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.”

Source : Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.89, Penguin
“I've discovered a new video game called owning my home.”
“People who go to the polar regions are statistically less likely to die than salesmen who drive on motorways in England.”

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