Category: Quotes

You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane. Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 14 The people in flight from the terror behind-strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith is refired forever. John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath 14…

When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the air. That’s my middle-west – not the wheat or the prairies or…

If I owned a silk scarf, I could put it around my neck and take it away with me. If I owned a flower, I could pluck that flower and take it away with me. But you cannot pluck the stars from heaven… Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince The Little Prince 0 they were…

These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them,or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no needto go to bed before it is time. Too much sleep is onlya bore. And of the others, any one whose heart and spiriturge him can go outside and sleep, and then, when the…

Why was he doubly irritated?Because he had forgotten and because he remembered that he had reminded himself twice not to forget. James Joyce Ulysses 4 The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, Nature, and God. Because only…