Then - Quotes
I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, the one thing powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.
If you aren`t the woman I think you are, then this isn`t the world I thought it was.
There are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible, and then you must do something else.
If you want success, then don`t rely on other people to do what you can do!
If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.
It is so hard to leave - until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
When you`re lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you`ve just wandered a few feet off the path, that you`ll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and its time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you dont even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.
You triumphed over me since it’s my fate
Incessantly to fail in all my struggles
But then, revitalized, to rise again.
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I`ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one`s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one`s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person`s view requires to be faked. [...] The man who lies to the world, is the world`s slave from then on.
I don`t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn`t mean anything? What then?
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.
Do I contradict myself?
Very well, then, I contradict myself,
(I am large - I contain multitudes.)