A Few Of My Favorite Quotes.

[jones jones]

I love the written word and I love the English language. Here are just a few of my favorite quotes ... Jj.

"I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me."

Hermann Hesse, Demian.

"Even a map cannot show you

the way back to a place

that no longer exists."

andra M. Castillo, from “Christmas, 1970”

"A book may be full of errors, we can reject the author’s opinions, disagree with him about everything, but the book always retains a sacred quality, something immortal, something divine which makes us happy."

Jorge Luis Borges, from Horizon, June 1981.



"Where do the words go

when we have said them?"

Margaret Atwood, from “The Small Cabin.

"A long time ago, man would listen in amazement to the sound of regular beats in

his chest, never suspecting what they were. He was unable to identify himself

with so alien and unfamiliar an object as the body. The body was a cage, and

inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought, and

marveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had been

accounted for, was the soul."

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."

Virginia Woolf, “An Unwritten Novel”

"There is nothing more to be said or to be done to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Case of the Five Orange Pips”

"Nothing is done entirely for nothing,” said the fox of dreams. “Nothing is wasted. You are older, and you have made decisions, and you are not the fox you were yesterday. Take what you have learned, and move on."

Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: The Dream Hunters