Every book

is the wreck of a perfect idea. 

- Iris Murdoch, The black prince

There's always

someone lower.

There is something about language

that hurts the thing it describes.

- Laurie Stone, My life as an animal

Forgive me.

I may have made this joke before.

If I don't have you

At least I'll still have me.

- Cyn, 'I'll still have me'

Original

 sentience.

- Duncan Trussell

Sometimes a lie

 is just not yet true.

Oh my soul, do not aspire to immortal life,

but exhaust the limits of the possible.

– Pindar

Hope has two beautiful daughters.

Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they.

– St. Augustine

Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it,

I will always stand on the side of the egg.

– Haruki Murakami

The purpose of a story

is to sound an alarm.

– Haruki Murakami

There are men whom one hates

until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armor, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.

- Gerald Kersh

Make game of that

which makes as much of thee.

- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald

If we are all made of atoms,

 then we each carry in us the potential to become atom bombs.

Our shamefaced concern

for the opinion of our friends.

- Alan Moore, 'The Birth Caul'