"The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil."

-- Aristotle

#Pain Quotes #Errors Quotes #Evil Quotes

“But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It's already then.”

Source : Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being”, p.88, Canongate Books
“Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.”

Source : "The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.
“Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.”
“I'm trying to make myself sound better.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“A fantastic golf course and venue. It's one of those places that you always look forward to going back to...no matter how many times you have been there before.”
“Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.”
“I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.”
“. . . For a lifetime was but a moment in that place, and each man dreams his own heaven. And in the darkness David closed his eyes, as all that was lost was found again.”

Source : John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.339, Simon and Schuster

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