Senandung Malam Quotes

#1. Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

Euripides

#2. That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.

Siri Hustvedt

#3. I didn't aspire to write and never considered it as a career option.

Vantile Whitfield

#4. Eight days the light continued on its own:
A miracle, they say, but not more so
Than ordinary lives of flesh and bone,
Consuming wicks burned ashen long ago ...

Nick Gordon

#5. Death was not necessarily a portal to the blank bliss of absolute nothingness. It was a deep dive into the unknown.

Amy Tan

#6. Every one is as much bound in thought, word, deed, and mind, as a piece of stone or this table. That I talk to you now is as rigorous in causation as that you listen to me. There is no freedom until you go beyond Maya. That is the real freedom of the soul.

Swami Vivekananda

#7. It is possible to do many household cleaning tasks by simply using ingredients from the store cupboard, which are also safer for the environment.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#8. Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it?

Jamie Zawinski

#9. A university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation. It is about learning that molds a lifetime, learning that transmits the heritage of millennia; learning that shapes the future

Drew Gilpin Faust

#10. Fuck he was beautiful, inside and out, and he would never be mine. That information sat sure and safe inside of me, turning me to stone because it was utterly undeniable. But I was still expected to stay here, be with him, and support him, the job I both did and didn't want with all of my heart.

Kylie Scott

#11. The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

James Mark Baldwin

#12. When the guy kissed her, Cassidy felt a stab of pain that was close to physical, and therefore within the penumbra of hurts he told himself he could bear.

John L. Parker Jr.

#13. I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.

Alison Bechdel

#14. Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary.

Rainer Maria Rilke