Quotes of Angela Carter

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I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

- Angela Carter

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“ I thought it (love) meant like you hold out your hand and someone takes it, holds it hard, and pulls you safe from the river. You talk. You tell him bits of yourself. You say here's where I hurt and you give it to him and he holds it and gives you where he hurts in return and you hold it and that's how you learn to love. ”

- Elizabeth George

“ The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options. ”

- Bill Hicks

“ You see, when we set goals that feel safer and achievable, we are caving in to our own preconceived notions of what we are capable of. We’re not pushing past our comfort zone; we’re just settling for status quo. ”

- Ruth Soukup

“ Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ”

- Kyle Chandler

“ Fake it 'till you make it. ”

- Gayle Forman

“ I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the covers before I do something stupid. ”

- Josephine Angelini

“ Love alone could waken love. ”

- Pearl S. Buck

“ Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”

- John Updike

“ We will either find a way, or make one. ”

- Hannibal

“ When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ My poetry has been engraved with your name And my heart is by your memory scarred ”

- Zubair Ahsan

“ I would die for you. But I won't live for you. ”

- Stephen Chbosky

“ If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution. ”

- Ram Dass

“ How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em. ”

- Shel Silverstein

“ Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes. ”

- Paulo Coelho

“ There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ”

- Erich Segal

“ Love yourself, whatever makes you different, and use it to make you stand out. Mine is my voice and the fact that I’m gay: well, the fact that I’m flamboyantly gay. ”

- Ross Mathews

“ There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge. ”

- Banksy

“ Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. ”

- Andre Gide

“ Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. ”

- Dalai Lama XIV