Senescents Quotes

#1. All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write literature to teach the old how to express themselves. All literature is written by mentally precocious adolescents and by mentally precocious senescents.

Laura Riding

#2. If you read the literature of Soviet Communism, you see a dogma that's chilling. On the other hand, if you read the literature of anti-communism, it's every bit as dogmatic.

Bill Ayers

#3. Nirvana's not like anything you've ever known or experienced because it can't be known or experienced.

Frederick Lenz

#4. Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment.

T. S. Eliot

#5. Something in her is still drowning a little from loss.

Ally Condie

#6. The more unsettled and unbalanced we feel, the more quickly and recklessly we are likely to fall in love.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#7. You wouldn't dare!"
I cocked my head at him and thought about it.
"Why do people say that?" I asked. "I don't understand it. It's like demanding whatever it is actually be done. It's tantamount to daring me to do it.

Garon Whited

#8. Main Street, which they were on, was a pretty street, even at night, and it looked old-fashioned in the best sense of the word - as if, for a hundred years, people had been caring for that street and they had not been in a hurry to lose anything they liked.

Neil Gaiman

#9. Nobody sane loves working in an office, It's against human nature to be locked up in a cubicle all day long.

Peter Clines

#10. Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward.

Orlando Figes

#11. I may be a creature of the night," he wiggled the fingers of his free hand in the air in mock spookiness, "but I happen to enjoy running water and electricity." I snapped my fingers in an aw shucks gesture and said mournfully, "You've shattered all of my illusions.

Sara C. Roethle

#12. Octavius Winslow was a prominent evangelical preacher in the 1800s. He said of the Holy Spirit, "It is his aim . . . to increase our happiness by making us more holy."[717]

Randy Alcorn

#13. If I had learned how to get along in the quotidian world while keeping up the search for the hidden realm, I might have gotten more out of life. But I believed I was doing hugely important work. I was elitist about it.

Jim Woodring

#14. Poetry is an art of expressing the unknown music of our inner feelings and emotions in our known language.

Debasish Mridha

#15. Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#16. Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.

Michelle Obama