"It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared."

-- Margery Allingham

#Disappointment Quotes #Spring Quotes #Optimistic Quotes

“There is something in omens.”
“If any part of your uncertainty, is a conflict between your heart and your mind - follow your mind.”
“For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert."”
“I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make belief more complex and more textured, more real. Good writing unsettles, destroys both the author and the reader. From my perspective, there always has to be a tension between the writer and the monolithic elements of the culture, such as religion.”
“Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? â€œIâ€™m not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. Iâ€™m just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and Iâ€™d like to cut your chest open.â€ The crowd cheers.”
“Idiot. Which road do you take when you're running from something weaker than yourself? Or maybe you're the one looking for an excuse to back out.”
“They say money kinda melts when you take it across a border.”
“If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.”

Source : Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

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