Kemnitz Candies Quotes

#1. The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#2. Great discoveries, whether of silk or gravity, are always windfalls. They happen to people loafing under trees.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#3. Believers are right when they say that to understand a religion properly you need to get under its skin. But to understand it fully, you cannot stay there: you have to take a more objective view, too.

Julian Baggini

#4. We are quantity-obsessed: Instead of living for 30 pleasant years (and then calling it a life), most people would rather live for 80 unpleasant years.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#5. Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.

Mary J. Blige

#6. There was a Greek philosopher who taught that, of all things, not to have been born is the sweetest state. But I believe sleep is the sweetest state. You're dead, yet alive. There's no sensation so exquisite.

Joyce Carol Oates

#7. I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

Lemony Snicket