Impassioned Plea Quotes

#1. In the end, every man's life is but a tale told to him that's lived it, and to him alone.

Tim Willocks

#2. A 'normal person' is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#3. Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.

Thucydides

#4. We don't talk about anything. She talks, for sure. She talks and talks and talks. But we don't talk at all.

David Levithan

#5. I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.

Lionel Blue

#6. You know so much about people from the second they open their mouths. Right away you might know that you might want to keep them out. That's part of the horror of speaking, of writing. There is nowhere to hide. When you try to hide, the spectacle can grow grotesque.

Maggie Nelson

#7. I love you, and I want you to be happy, I want you to have the life you deserve. And if that means ... if that means I have to stand here and watch you walk away, then I'll do it. I won't be happy about it. It'll break my heart. But ... if that's what you really need, then we're done.

Charles Sheehan-Miles

#8. Acquaintance; companion;
One dear brilliant woman;
The best-endowed, the elect,
All by their youth undone,
All, all, by that inhuman
Bitter glory wrecked.

William Butler Yeats

#9. I have this natural thing in my head that when I sit down to write something serious, I tend to make jokes. I can't help it. I can't help but desire for the narrative to be as complicated and as truthful as possible. That's just the way my head works.

Justin Simien