Ilych Quotes

#1. Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. So on receiving the news of Ivan Ilych's death the first thought of each of the gentlemen in that private room was of the changes and promotions it might occasion among themselves

Leo Tolstoy

#3. What tormented Ivan Ilych most was the deception, the lie, which for some reason they all accepted, that he was not dying but was simply ill, and that he only need keep quiet and undergo a treatment and then something very good would result.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. Conversation sprang up as to the elegance and realism of her acting -- the sort of conversation that is always repeated and is always the same. In the midst of the conversation Fedor Petrovich glanced at Ivan Ilych and became silent. The others also looked at him and grew silent. Ivan

Leo Tolstoy

#5. It has
long been our contention that ' dread of society [soziale
Angsty is the essence of what is called conscience.

Sigmund Freud

#6. The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about.

John Hume

#7. Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people

Heinrich Heine

#8. A writer should remember that about his muse there is a great deal of the Siren. He should view his mental offspring as relentlessly as a Spartan father - if it is not perfectly sound, let it be cast out.

F.L. Lucas

#9. If we but give it time, a work of art 'can rap and knock and enter our souls' and re-align us - all our molecules - to make us whole again.

P.K. Page

#10. I never wanted it to end this way, but flies will lay their eggs.

Marilyn Manson

#11. I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.

Anne Rice

#12. Forget him. Forget him.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#13. I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Christian because of you and I hear you're not a Christian, that's shocking to me.' I don't take these things lightly, but that's who I am. I can't change it.

Daniel Everett

#14. Very often, you know, you stop walking because you say, 'Well, I'm tired of climbing this hill. I'm never going to get to the top.' And you're only two steps from the top.

Morgan Freeman

#15. I love a good miso soup: it's fermented. It really helps with the immune system. I'll add tofu, carrots and seaweed.

Tia Mowry

#16. The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#17. They like him better when he was the poor cousin that they can feel good for taking notice. I tell him that politician do the same thing to me when they realize me can read.

Marlon James

#18. He was a very good gardener, understood flowers, and knew how to make things grow. What is more, he liked this kind of work almost as much as painting.

Thomas Merton

#19. I do flip between being chatty and argumentative - and being a psycho-loner werewolf.

Peter Hammill