Departed Friend Quotes

#1. Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

Jean Paul

#2. It seems to me that, with but slight reserve and modification, we may apply to our departed friend his own pathetic and beautiful elegy upon another.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

#3. There is an aspect of my character that tends to latch on to one difficult but potentially solvable problem, rather than grapple with the vast and unsolvable problem that would be all I could see, if I were to look up, figuratively speaking, from my small blue notebooks.

Ben H. Winters

#4. Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and byway of sexual exploitation, is encoded in it.

Andrea Dworkin

#5. Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth.
[Lat., Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquam
Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.]

Ovid

#6. No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise..

Wallace D. Wattles

#7. Though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana solitary in a wide flat space,
Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend a lover near,
I know very well I could not."
- from "I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing

Walt Whitman

#8. This is how it goes when Homeland Security's been canceled due to lack of sanity.

Stephen King

#9. Perchance, I would listen. Have you said anything?

Joan Bauer

#10. Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable.

Karl Ludwig Von Knebel

#11. And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.

J.K. Rowling

#12. A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.

Oscar Wilde

#13. Finally he said, "Bad writers don't practice, Stella. It's the good ones who care enough to try, who worry about getting the words just right. You are probably better than you think.

Sharon M. Draper

#14. If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?

Dejan Stojanovic

#15. When I have to cry, I think about my love life. When I have to laugh, I think about my love life.

Glenda Jackson

#16. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourslef or to gossip about others. Use your power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

Miguel Ruiz

#17. I've made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I'm no longer interested in that subject - which is a wonderful relief.

Ira Sachs

#18. Think of the solution, not the problem

Terry Goodkind