Defrays Quotes

#1. Every one has a sum of physical and moral suffering to pay, and whoever does not settle it here below, defrays it after death; happiness is only lent, and must be repaid; its very phantoms are like duties paid in advance on a future succession of sorrows.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

#2. Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?

Annie Ernaux

#3. I was a weird kid because I liked to be alone, but I craved attention. It was important for me to be cool, but I couldn't keep my mouth shut. So I was either talking for the sake of talking, or I was curled up with a book somewhere hiding from everyone.

Anthony Jeselnik

#4. There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Anthony De Mello

#5. I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.

Wally Lamb

#6. This post-college world felt different from everything that had come before it ...

Meg Wolitzer

#7. Every decision you make ... is a decision about Who You Are.

Neale Donald Walsch

#8. It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.

Wilkie Collins

#9. Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.

Gabriela Mistral

#10. The chemistry from compounds in the environment is orders of magnitude more complex than our best chemists can produce.

Craig Venter

#11. The mind requires regular use to remain strong.

Napoleon Hill

#12. We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult it has become merely to get a realistic conversation started on issues such as climate change or genetically modified organisms.

Nina Fedoroff

#13. All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a better place. Like shooting someone.

Terry Pratchett