Being Angry For No Reason Quotes

1. "Knowledge is important, but only if we're being kind and gentle with ourselves as we work to discover who we are."
Author: Brené Brown

2. "And that feeling, that attachment I'd felt to him was no longer a hook, but an anchor buried deep in my rib cage."
Author: Cora Carmack

3. "To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler ford, ethically. Because you cannot discern our differences, you assume we have none. But make no mistake: even same-stem fabricants cultured in the same wombtank are as singular as snowflakes."
Author: David Mitchell

4. "Really, if this is being glaringly good I must confess that the glare does not dazzle me."
Author: G.K. Chesterton

5. "As we drank champagne in the lounge, I explained that I had earned special privileges by being particularly vigilant and observant of rules and procedures on previous flights, and by making a substantial number of helpful suggestions regarding check-in procedures, flight scheduling, pilot training, and ways in which security systems might be subverted. I was no longer expected to offer advice, having contributed "enough for a lifetime of flying."
Author: Graeme Simsion

6. "Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do."
Author: Grimes

7. "Damn it, I'm angry now. I do believe life is loss, I do, but my suffering-to-words-ratio was out of control: lying around composing nothing but these - righteous arias, month after month, these tawdry special pleas."
Author: Gwendoline Riley

8. "Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones."
Author: Irving Stone

9. "The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord's Supper. I lay it down as a simple matter of fact that no one who is careless about such things must ever expect to make much progress in sanctification."
Author: J. C. Ryle

10. "I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward."
Author: Jamie Ford

11. "And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns."
Author: Jeffrey Wright

12. "What does reading do, You can learn almost everything from reading, But I read too, So you must know something, Now I'm not so sure, You'll have to read differently then, How, The same method doesn't work for everyone, each person has to invent his or her own, whichever suits them best, some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters, Unless, Unless what, Unless those rivers don't have just two shores but many, unless each reader is his or her own shore, and that shore is the only shore worth reaching."
Author: José Saramago

13. "I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism - that's what I spent most of my time doing."
Author: Julian Schnabel

14. "Jim eyed me for a couple of seconds, then got off the bed and went to curl up on the pile of blankets I'darranged as its bed. "I don't suppose you'd care to lend me a couple hundred euros?"I pointed at the wall. It turned its back to me so I could get into the nightgown Perdita had lent me. "Youare not going to bet on me. Or against me. No betting whatsoever.Got that?"Jim huffed and settled down for the night. "You sure do know how to take all the fun out of life. Bet youeven made Drake use a condom."
Author: Katie MacAlister

15. "I don't wish for the red house back, not really, yet in a way, I wish for everything back that ever was, everything that once seemed like forever and yet has vanished . . . Standing here on an empty hilltop in New Hampshire, as a bulldozer slowly pushes the debris of a small red house into a neat pile, I allow, just for a moment, the past to push hard against the walls of my heart. Being alive, it seems, means learning to bear the weight of the passing of all things. It means finding a way to lightly hold all the places we've loved and left anyway, all the moments and days and years that have already been lived and lost to memory, even as we live on in the here and now, knowing full well that this moment, too, is already gone. It means, always, allowing for the hard truth of endings. It means, too, keeping faith in beginnings."
Author: Katrina Kenison

16. "I am always late for work, she never notices because she's always too busy being impressed."
Author: King Rankwaila

17. "As I say, all all he wanted from the manuscript was the string. That was the way he was. Nobody could predict what he was going to be interested in next. On the day of the bomb it was string. [...] He had no use at all for tricks and games and rules that other people made up."
Author: Kurt Vonnegut

18. "Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence."
Author: Leo Tolstoy

19. "I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper with Ivan the coachman, falling into angry discussions, expressing my opinions tactlessly; there will be still the same wall between the holy of holies of my soul and other people, even my wife; I shall still go on scolding her for my own terror, and being remorseful for it; I shall still be as unable to understand with my reason why I pray, and I shall still go on praying; but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it." - Levin"
Author: Leo Tolstoy

20. "If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable."
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

21. "Boys,' she says, 'just aren't very good at being afraid."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

22. "But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot."
Author: Margaret Atwood

23. "I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces."
Author: Norman Spinrad

24. "I must go on living. And, though itmay be childish of me, I can't go on insimple compliance. From now on I muststruggle with the world. I thought thatMother might well be the last of thosewho can end their lives beautifully andsadly, struggling with no one, neitherhating nor betraying anyone. In theworld to come there will be no room forsuch people. The dying are beautiful,but to live, to survive – those thingssomehow seem hideous andcontaminated with blood."
Author: Osamu Dazai

25. "Our view of the mind not only shapes our view of ourselves; less obviously, it also shapes our view of that part of our experience we conceive of as dealing with the external world. As we learn about the structure of this aspect of experience, we find that the world presents itself to consciousness only after being mediated to lesser or (more often) greater extents by mental structures and processes."
Author: Sean O Nuallain

26. "Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life."
Author: Shannon Hale

27. "Having a great intellect is no path to being happy."
Author: Stephen Fry

28. "If being queer meant loving Aaron, then he'd own the label, at least internally."
Author: Tibby Armstrong

29. "And unless one can observe the guilt and regret of the mourners, surely there is nothing satisfactory about being dead?"
Author: Truman Capote

30. "Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to."
Author: William Weld

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