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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. — Toni Morrison · 1987Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from. — Margaret Atwood · 1985What is Love?... It is the morning and the evening star. — Sinclair Lewis · 1927When you love someone you leave every possibility open to them, and in spite of all the memories of the past you are ready to be surprised, again and again-surprised, at how different they are, how various, not a finished image. — Max Frisch · 1954I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. — Charles Dickens · 1861By loving people without cause he discovered indubitable causes for loving them. — Leo Tolstoy · 1869All 39 quotes →The human condition26 quotes
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925The bonds between ourselves and another person exist only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying. — Marcel Proust · 1922The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. — Ernest Hemingway · 1929The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our nothingness. — Andre Malraux · 1943We live, as we dream—alone. — Joseph Conrad · 1899Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things. — Willa Cather · 1929All 26 quotes →Men and women17 quotes
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. — Jane Austen · 1813Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! — Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850Through his passion nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch · 1870None of you ask for anything-except everything, but just for so long as you need it. — Doris Lessing · 1962A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, Perhaps this is the man. — Doris Lessing · 1962All 17 quotes →Human nature16 quotes
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him; they crush those beneath them. — Emily Bronte · 1847There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast. — Charles Dickens · 1837The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness, and that, for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better. — George Orwell · 1949Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. — Mark Twain · 1893Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things they could get used to. — Arundhati Roy · 1997It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847All 16 quotes →Life16 quotes
They lived und laughed ant loved end left. — James Joyce · 1939The history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way. — Michael Crichton · 1953You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music. — Annie Proulx · 1993All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. — J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody. — Stephen Chbosky · 1999I'll tell you a big secret mon cher. Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day. — Albert Camus · 1956All 16 quotes →Happiness15 quotes
He was unheeded, happy and near to the wild heart of life. — James Joyce · 1915How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea... All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart. — Nikos Kazantzakis · 1946The eternal error men make in imagining that happiness consists in the gratification of their wishes. — Leo Tolstoy · 1877If you're happy in a dream... does that count? — Arundhati Roy · 1997I would always rather be happy than dignified. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness, and that, for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better. — George Orwell · 1949All 15 quotes →Beauty13 quotes
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. — Margaret Wolfe Hungerford · 1878Beauty can pierce one like a pain. — Thomas Mann · 1901Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. — Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880Beauty will save the world. — Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1869The curves of your lips rewrite history. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Genius lasts longer than Beauty. — Oscar Wilde · 1890All 13 quotes →Death13 quotes
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. — Ernest Hemingway · 1940It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. — Charles Dickens · 1859All partings foreshadow the great final one. — Charles Dickens · 1853Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. — Herman Melville · 1851Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world. — Mark Twain · 1894Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go... Life is nothing. Life is all. It is the hand with which we hold off death. It is the glow-worm that shines in the night-time and is black in the morning; it is the white breath of the oxen in the winter; it is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself at sunset. — H. Rider Haggard · 1885All 13 quotes →Marriage13 quotes
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Reader, I married him. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and, however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want. — Jane Austen · 1813Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same. — Erica Jong · 1973Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond. — Thomas Love Peacock · 1817All 13 quotes →Time13 quotes
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. — Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1860Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. — Marthe Troly-Curtin · 1912The strongest of all warriors are these two-Time and Patience. — Leo Tolstoy · 1869Time moves slowly, but passes quickly. — Alice Walker · 1982All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. — J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954Time is the great physician. — Benjamin Disraeli · 1837All 13 quotes →Nature of love11 quotes
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. — Toni Morrison · 1987No human creature can give orders to love. — George Sand · 1834What is Love?... It is the morning and the evening star. — Sinclair Lewis · 1927Like everybody who is not in love, he imagined that one chose the person whom one loved after endless deliberations and on the strength of various qualities and advantages. — Marcel Proust · 1921When you love someone you leave every possibility open to them, and in spite of all the memories of the past you are ready to be surprised, again and again-surprised, at how different they are, how various, not a finished image. — Max Frisch · 1954The half-life of love is forever. — Junot Diaz · 2012All 11 quotes →Women11 quotes
That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature. — George Meredith · 1885I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. — George Meredith · 1859It is hard for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. — Thomas Hardy · 1874A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. — Leonard Cohen · 1963What a misfortune it is to be born a woman!... Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show us the narrow limits, the Gothic structure, the impenetrable barriers of our prison. — Maria Edgeworth · 1806All 11 quotes →The past10 quotes
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925The past is never dead. It's not even past. — William Faulkner · 1951We cannot reform our forefathers. — George Eliot · 1859When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that. — Margaret Atwood · 1985Memories warm you up from the inside but they also tear you apart. — Haruki Murakami · 2002What can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished? The hard reality is, surely, that for the likes of you and I, there is little choice other than to leave our fate, ultimately, in the hands of those great gentlemen at the hub of this world who employ our services. What is the point in worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one’s life took? Surely it is enough that the likes of you and I at least try to make our small contribution count for something true and worthy. And if some of us are prepared to sacrifice much in life in order to pursue such aspirations, surely that is in itself, whatever the outcome, cause for pride and contentment. — Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989All 10 quotes →Adversity9 quotes
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. — Louisa May Alcott · 1868It is not the prize that can make us happy; it is not even the winning of the prize....[It is] the struggle, the long hot hour of the honest fight.... There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it. — Anthony Trollope · 1862There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. — Willa Cather · 1915Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive. — Josephine Hart · 1991The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline. — Douglas Adams · 1978Our greatest glory is, not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1761All 9 quotes →Connecting with others9 quotes
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own. — Willa Cather · 1925The bonds between ourselves and another person exist only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying. — Marcel Proust · 1922Human contact seemed to her so frail a thing that the hope that two people might want each other in the same way, at the same time and with the possibility of doing something about it, seemed infinitely remote. — Margaret Drabble · 1969Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. — Emily Bronte · 1847It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others. — Jane Austen · 1811And in that moment, I swear we were infinite. — Stephen Chbosky · 1999All 9 quotes →Relationships9 quotes
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. — Emily Bronte · 1847A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. — George Eliot · 1876There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. — W. Somerset Maugham · 1915There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences. — Wallace Stegner · 1967Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world. — Erica Jong · 1973Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. — Leo Tolstoy · 1877All 9 quotes →Suffering9 quotes
The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. — Ernest Hemingway · 1929We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full. — Marcel Proust · 1922But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind. — Margaret Atwood · 1985Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive. — Josephine Hart · 1991Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. — Marcel Proust · 1922Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching… I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape. — Charles Dickens · 1861All 9 quotes →Travel9 quotes
The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is. — Marcel Proust · 1922Railway termini... Are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return. — E.M. Forster · 1910"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations. — George Eliot · 1866I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. — Mark Twain · 1894They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind. — G.K. Chesterton · 1921Here to-day, up and off to somewhere else to-morrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing! — Kenneth Grahame · 1908All 9 quotes →God and man8 quotes
The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history. — Robert A. Heinlein · 1973We cannot all be friars, and many are the ways by which God leads his own to eternal life. Knight-errantry is religion. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1615Have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God. — Alice Walker · 1982A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. — Joseph Conrad · 1911Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God. — Thornton Wilder · 1927It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. — Peter De Vries · 1958All 8 quotes →Man and animals8 quotes
There is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men. — Herman Melville · 1851It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood and stench and spilling gut; it came to him that he had sickened and turned away because of his shock at seeing the buffalo, a few moments before proud and noble and full of the dignity of life, now stark and helpless, a length of inert meat, divested of itself, or his notion of its self, swinging grotesquely, mockingly, before him. It was not itself; or it was not that self that he had imagined it to be. That self was murdered; and in that murder he had felt the destruction of something within him, and he had not been able to face it. So he had turned away. — John Williams · 1960All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler (novelist) · 1902Man is a Tool-using Animal...without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all. — Thomas Carlyle · 1834Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view) consists of its attitudes towards those who are at its mercy: animals. — Milan Kundera · 1984Now and then a visitor wept, to be sure; but this slaughtering machine ran on, visitors or no visitors. It was like some horrible crime committed in a dungeon, all unseen and unheeded, buried out of sight and of memory. — Upton Sinclair · 1905All 8 quotes →Memory8 quotes
His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or reverie, he had heard their tale before. — James Joyce · 1915Once I had recognized the taste of the crumb of madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime flowers which my aunt used to give me... Immediately the old gray house upon the street, where her room was, rose up like the scenery of a theater. — Marcel Proust · 1913What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed. — Julian Barnes · 2011It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. — Chuck Palahniuk · 2003Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. — Jane Austen · 1813If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets. — Haruki Murakami · 2002All 8 quotes →Ocean and sea8 quotes
All collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. — Herman Melville · 1851The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. — Kate Chopin · 1899The sea... The snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea. — James Joyce · 1922Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common disaster, I've come to learn, is women. — Charles R. Johnson · 1990Look at that sea, girls-all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds. — L.M. Montgomery · 1908Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life. — Herman Melville · 1851All 8 quotes →Personal growth8 quotes
She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life. — Jonathan Franzen · 2001Of all means to regeneration Remorse is surely the most wasteful. It cuts away healthy tissues with the poisoned. It is a knife that probes far deeper than the evil. — E.M. Forster · 1910If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless. — Hermann Hesse · 1910Let no one think that he can conquer the first impressions of his youth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1796Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. — Marcel Proust · 1922It was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one's ability and beyond, so that thereafter one has a new standard by which to judge oneself. — Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989All 8 quotes →Progress8 quotes
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. — Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1851She assured them, too, of her firm belief, that, at some brighter period, when the world should have grown ripe for it, in Heaven's own time, a new truth would be revealed, in order to establish the whole relation between man and woman on a surer ground of mutual happiness. — Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850We cannot reform our forefathers. — George Eliot · 1859Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things. — Willa Cather · 1929The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. — Benjamin Disraeli · 1831I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and of silencing them forever. — Sinclair Lewis · 1935All 8 quotes →Totalitarianism8 quotes
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever. — George Orwell · 1949The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. — George Orwell · 1945Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. — George Orwell · 1949The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. — George Orwell · 1949Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. — George Orwell · 1949Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. — George Orwell · 1949All 8 quotes →Vulnerability8 quotes
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could. — Louise Erdrich · 2005We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, this hardness; but we aren't like that really. I mean... One can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold... Do you see what I mean? — John le Carre · 1963I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts? — Rebecca Wells · 1996I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil. — J.R.R. Tolkien · 1955He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair. — Arundhati Roy · 1997Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces,—and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper,—love her, love her, love her! — Charles Dickens · 1861All 8 quotes →Youth8 quotes
I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free. — Emily Bronte · 1847The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Should I live for centuries, the sweet period of my youth would not be reborn, nor effaced from my memory. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1761Yes, of course we were pretentious—what else is youth for? — Julian Barnes · 2011In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground. — George Eliot · 1866To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. — Oscar Wilde · 1890All 8 quotes →Adaptability7 quotes
Man is a creature that can get used to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him. — Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1860Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things they could get used to. — Arundhati Roy · 1997Young people have a marvellous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. Even if they are unhappy-very unhappy-it is astonishing how easily they can be prevented from finding it out, or at any rate from attributing it to any other cause than their own sinfulness. — Samuel Butler (novelist) · 1902It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used to doing-it is this uncanny ability that the existence of the human species is based on. — Christa Wolf · 1996There are no conditions of life to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees them accepted by everyone about him. — Leo Tolstoy · 1877That's the part of it I always liked. He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling. — Dashiell Hammett · 1930All 7 quotes →Being in love7 quotes
His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or reverie, he had heard their tale before. — James Joyce · 1915I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1934I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. — Charles Dickens · 1861I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. — Charles Dickens · 1861I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun. — Jane Austen · 1813I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774All 7 quotes →Effects of time7 quotes
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. — Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1860Time is the great physician. — Benjamin Disraeli · 1837Time has too much credit... It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary. — Ivy Compton-Burnett · 1951Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. — Oscar Wilde · 1890We think time cannot touch the dead, but it touches their monuments, leaving them snub-nosed and stub-fingered from the accidents and attrition of time. — Hilary Mantel · 2012Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love. — Jean de La Bruyere · 1688All 7 quotes →