"Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an overshadowed ocean, while the dazzling brightness of supreme hopes lies far off, fascinating and still, on the distant edge of the horizon"

--

Source : Joseph Conrad (2005). “A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences”, p.18, Cosimo, Inc.

Joseph Conrad

#Lying Quotes #Twilight Quotes #Ocean Quotes

“It's not that I dislike the police, but I would never go to the police for anything. It's just that I prefer not..., not calling them.”
“We don't have to start all over again and try to keep the slate clean. There is no more slate.”
“Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit”

Source : "Queen's speech: William and Kate's wedding a reminder of value of loved ones, says Queen in Christmas message". www.mirror.co.uk. December 25, 2011.
“But actual rapists, men who are usually known to (and often loved by) their victims? Men who are sometimes our sports heroes, political leaders, buddies, boyfriends and fathers? Evidence suggests we don't despise them nearly as much as we should.”
“What about desserts?" I asked. "If the world comes to an end, I'm going to want cookies." "We're all going to want cookies if the world comes to an end," Mrs. Nesbitt agreed. "And chips and pretzels. If the world is coming to an end, why should I care about my blood pressure?" "Okay, we'll die fat," Mom said.”
“I think true love is not only true personal love but totality of love, universal love - to be in love with everything manifest and everything unmanifest.”
“Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.”
“The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.”

Source : FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Sep 15, 2011

You may also like:

Chinua Achebe
Novelist
D. H. Lawrence
Novelist
Ernest Hemingway
Author
Ford Madox Ford
Novelist
Henry James
Writer
Herman Melville
Novelist
James Joyce
Novelist
Robert Louis Stevenson
Novelist
Rudyard Kipling
Writer