"When I see a cheerful young man shrieking about how full of life he is, banging on a drum, and blowing on a tin trumpet, and speaking of his good spirits, it depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can't be real. It ought to be but it isn't. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn't say it."

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Source : Ada Leverson (2012). “Love at Second Sight”, p.100, tredition

Ada Leverson

#Depressing Quotes #Real Quotes #Men Quotes

“Dreams do come true if you keep believing in yourself. Anything is possible.”
“There is no security for any of us unless there is security for all”
“Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma.”
“Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back of my closet, forgetting it was there. We were meant to die when it was barely stitched anymore, when the elbows and knees were stained with grass and mud, shoulder pads uneven from people hugging you all the time, downpours and blistering sun, the fabric faded, buttons gone.”
“I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo. I don't know why. Is it because we are so unsure, so tentative and waiting? Like it needs that much room, that much space to expand. The not knowing anything really, the hoping, the aching transience: This is not real, not really, and so we let it alone, let it unfold lightly. Those times that can fly.”

Source : Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.216, Vintage
“The American president just won the nobel peace prize, by any reasonable measure, all Americans should be proud”
“This earth, burnished by hearing the name, is so certain of love,â€¨that the sky bends unceasingly down, to greet its own light.”
“A digital camera has to be kept in check like a racehorse.”

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