carveola’s most recent Quotables

"Just kidding" was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be the blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.

Look here - what if I love you?

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes.

Life was a revolving mystery, sometimes terrifying, sometimes maddening. But always provocative. Interesting. And although its meaning seemed beyond my grasp, it never seemed meaningless.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?

I didn't think so, but if I was wrong, I was wrong. I'd rather do something, and make a mistake than be frightened and be doing nothing.

If you're gonna wait for the universe to start making sense, you have a long wait ahead of you.

There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you'll ever be. Then you accept it...or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking into mirrors.

May God stand between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.

You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve theme? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

What makes a religion false? If any religion is right, then maybe they all have to be right. Maybe God doesn't care how you say your prayers, just as long as you say them.

Our lives are important - at least to us - and as we see, so we learn... Our destiny is in the stars, so let's go and search for it.

You can't rule the world in hiding. You've got to come out on the balcony sometimes and wave a tentacle.

For some people, small, beautiful events are what life is all about!