Quotes of Henry James

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Life is a predicament which precedes death.

- Henry James

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“ I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed. ”

- St. Augustine of Hippo

“ Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Time is persistent, and we need to make the best of it. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter. ”

- Melissa Marr

“ Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ Family where life begins & love never ends. ”

- Unknown

“ Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you. ”

- Amit Ray

“ I do love nothing in the world so well as you is not that strange? ”

- William Shakespeare

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

- Kyle Chandler

“ I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone. ”

- Suzanne Collins

“ Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Her footprints are leaving green marks on the desert heart of mine ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ If we open ourselves up to our feelings, our intuition, and our spiritual centers, we become much closer to the mystery of the Universe. ”

- Patricia Lynn

“ I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. ”

- Charlotte Bronte

“ We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most. ”

- Roy Bennett

“ A blooming relationship even if it’s someone else’s, makes me so happy and reinstates my faith in love... ”

- Nitya Prakash

“ Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. ”

- Annie Dillard

“ Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ ?Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ”

- Voltaire

“ Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ The only shortcut I have found to life is to sharpen my teeth on the bones of the wise. ”

- Vic Stah Milien

“ I do not write feelings, emotions I do not write after that day, about love anything I do not write my silence scream somewhere inside me there are my bloody wounds on paper words I do not write ”

- Mohammed Zaki Ansari

“ A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ 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