Powerscourt Quotes

#1. By now the two men were tied securely to their chairs. Powerscourt found he could just about move his arms. If there was a deus out there somewhere, he said to himself, he wished he would hurry up and get out of his machina.

David Dickinson

#2. It is a pity that there was no Dostoevsky living near this most interesting decadent [Jesus], I mean someone with an eye for the distinctive charm that this sort of mixture of sublimity, sickness, and childishness has to offer.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. Remember who you can trust, and keep them close.

Shannon Messenger

#4. My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

Julian Casablancas

#5. So often, fear keeps us from being able to say yes to love - perhaps our greatest challenge as human beings.

Sharon Salzberg

#6. I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then. None of the forms nostalgia can take fits. I found childhood boring. I was glad it was over.

Alan Bennett

#7. My life has been quite interesting professionally.

Elliott Erwitt

#8. It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies, if the poet did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.

Henry David Thoreau