Quotes of John Banville

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The past beats inside me like a second heart.

- John Banville

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“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones? ”

- Elizabeth Scott

“ It is now how good you are, it’s how good you want to be. ”

- Unknown

“ Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. ”

- Michael Novak

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates

“ Repentance is not at an end, Instead it’s the beginning of how it ends. ”

- Yeth Bisto

“ When love comes like that, all you can do is surrender, to lay down your arms and submit to the will of those who would love you. For in denying it, you face only regret. ”

- Michael Kilman

“ If our love isn't written in the stars, Why the very moment we truly locked eyes for the first time does one fly straight by. There's something to be said about twinsouls and meeting eye to eye, the soul ignites its fire for the very first time. ”

- Nikki Rowe

“ I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ There is nothing higher than love, and nothing lower than ignorance. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. ”

- Earl Nightingale

“ Such is my relationship with God: on my gigantic canvass of life, I am the one throwing all of the brightlycolored paints, creating genuine splatters, authentic whirlpools of color, beautiful patterns, wonderful streaks and stains and wild accents; God is the one with the paintbrush who stands beside my canvass filling all the intricate and amazing details in between the whirlpools and the streaks! We're happy together! ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me. ”

- Jenny Han

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

- Ram Dass

“ Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. ”

- Joan Crawford

“ The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ How do I say “I miss you” in a way that will make your heart ache as mine does? ”

- Unknown

“ Reading is life, Reading is knowledge, Reading Is Everything. ”

- Ezra Heft

“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love. ”

- Billy Graham

“ A heart, once stolen, can never be taken back. ”

- Marissa Meyer

“ The pillow looked astonished, wondering what ended the late night river that used to run through it, but only he knows that she is the reason ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ I’ll hold you in my heart, till I can hold you in my arms. ”

- Unknown