Roland Barthes Lovers Discourse Quotes

#1. When one has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.

Robin Hobb

#2. Each of us was born to fulfill a divine purpose. As we open our hearts and minds to a new way of being, the purpose of our lives unfolds organically.

Iyanla Vanzant

#3. Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.

Lois Lowry

#4. So in fact, narrowing down our choices means less overwhelm, and more creativity.

Courtney Carver

#5. Alviss, son of Vindalf. He's the king of the dwarfs. The biggest, mightiest, greatest of all the dwarf folk.
"But he's not a dwarf," pointed out Shadow. "He's what, five-eight?"
"Which makes him a giant among dwarfs," said Czernobog from behind him. "Tallest dwarf in America.

Neil Gaiman

#6. I'm not happy. Nor am I sad. I'm just...here.

Amy Plum

#7. Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.

Philip K. Dick

#8. Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse.

Pablo Picasso

#9. A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

George MacDonald

#10. How can you trust a place if you can't trust the sky?

Matthew Keefer

#11. I'm not very much of a foodie; I like small amounts of delicious things, but I've never overeaten - I'd much rather have a glass of wine.

Felicity Kendal

#12. Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.

Edward Coke

#13. A new patina whitening the walls with marks of memories, all running together as if the memories themselves aspired to be the walls in which I was imprisoned ...

Kevin Powers

#14. The fact of the matter is I always have a really high sense of responsibility to the reader, whether it's a few readers that I get or a lot of readers, which I was lucky enough to get with 'Olive.' I feel responsible to them, to deliver something as truthful and straight as I can.

Elizabeth Strout

#15. Our fight is a fundamental fight against both of the old corrupt party machines, for both are under the dominion of the plunder league of the professional politicians who are controlled and sustained by the great beneficiaries of privilege and reaction.

Theodore Roosevelt