Cove Holden Quotes

#1. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

Matthew Quick

#2. Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#3. The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#4. If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is

Van Cliburn

#5. Catholic, which I was until I reached the age of reason

George Carlin

#6. For the majority of the time, I may as well have been just a really tan white kid. You know, I may as well have just been, like, a fat kid.

Aziz Ansari

#7. I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead poet and a dying theologian.

Roger Zelazny

#8. There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to a man, being what he is, to know that many are, have been, and will be better than he.

George Santayana