"I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people."

-- Tony Judt

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Without Valentine's Day, February would be... well, January.”
“I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.”
“... it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person.”

Source : George Howe Colt (2006). “November of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide”, p.220, Simon and Schuster
“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”
“"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. "Yeah, that's true," I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, "But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all."”
“Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.”
“I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.”
“There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.”

Source : Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.146, Reprint Services Corporation

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