Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.
—Brother William of Baskerville, The Name of the Rose
If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?
—The Drunken Immortal, Forbidden Kingdom
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
—William Somerset Maugham
You look closely enough you’ll find everything has a weak spot where it can break, sooner or later.
—Ted Crawford, Fracture
You don’t know about real loss cause that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. And I doubt you’ve ever dared to love anybody that much.
—Sean Maguire, Good Will Hunting
Ironic, isn’t it? How people without truly important things know about them more than those who have them.
—Sakata Gintoki, Gintama
That is the service; your life makes mine better.
—Richard Rahl, Chainfire
The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.
—Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
Sometimes we put up walls. Not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to knock them down.
—Unknown
Must we continue to lift our eyes toward heaven? Does the luminous point we discern there come from those being quenched? The ideal is terrible to see, thus lost in the depths—minute, isolated, imperceptible, shining, but surrounded by all those great black menaces monstrously amassed around it, yet no more in danger than a star in the jaws of clouds.
—Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
Be good and you will be lonesome.
—Mark Twain
I think people think too much.
—Marcus Tang
It is only when social institutions can learn to override crime-causing aspect of cultural ethos that we can put a stopple on criminality.
—Lilian Elizabeth Thompson
Sometimes, just kissing a girl you don’t particularly like is every bit as hard as being underwater in a car with no air.
—Mark Harmon
The saddest thing in the world, is loving someone who used to love you.
—Anonymous
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
—Milan Kundera
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Junior
Grief is the price we pay for love.
—Queen Elizabeth II
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are always inaccessible.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
Blessed are all simple emotions, be they dark or bright! It is the lurid intermixture of the two that produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rappacini’s Daughter
