Noumenon Book Quotes

#1. By the time Cyrus was released from the hospital and the army, his gonorrhea was dried up. When he got home to Connecticut there remained only enough of it for his wife.

John Steinbeck

#2. I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affections, feel His invisible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular Providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.

Miguel De Unamuno

#3. I don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human beings; I don't know what your impression has been, but some things require no further reinforcement.

Christopher Hitchens

#4. We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

George S. Patton

#5. The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?

Henry David Thoreau

#6. Temporary homecomings are bittersweet. Sometimes it's better not to go back at all than to have to leave again.

Amanda Bouchet

#7. our scars are invisible and they won't ever heal

Nova Weetman

#8. You love and you hate and you grieve and you don't even feel it.

Lev Grossman

#9. Avoid evil, particularly if they're attractive members of the opposite sex.

Charlie Munger

#10. She gave me money to buy condoms, and instead I bought a book of baby names. That's life. That's love. That's fiscally irresponsible.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#11. There are women in my closet, hanging on the hangers. a different woman for each suit, each dress, each pair of shoes. I hoard clothes. My makeup spills from the bathroom drawers, and there are different women for different lipsticks.

Marya Hornbacher

#12. The primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing the lower creatures out of the pale of sympathy, and thus had the foundation for this utter disregard of animals in the light of our fellow creatures.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#13. I was more afraid that in a few words thrown out he might destroy something that I loved. What if his words had the effect of polio on me? What a terrible disease that must be if it could kill God in a man.

Yann Martel

#14. No need, no, need. Life is already too short to find it.

Jessica Day George