Surviving Cutting Quotes

#1. In his essay, 'Perpetual Peace,' the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.

Henry Kissinger

#2. In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some of the terrible things we were asked to endure ...

Madeleine L'Engle

#3. He couldn't understand how he was awarded medals and honors for clubbing and bayoneting people, and be called a barbarian for killing seals.

Geoff Butler

#4. You are going to do this voluntarily, Mr. Constant, so that the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent can have a drama of dignified self-sacrifice to remember and ponder through all time.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. His sadness was unbearable to watch. Far worse than his rage. He looked so defeated in that sorrow - like he was surrendering, like the battle was too much.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#6. I wear my crown of thorns on my liars chair, full of broken thoughts I cannot repair, beneath the stain of time the feelings disappears. What have I become, my sweetest of friends?

Johnny Cash

#7. Kids are truthful by nature.

Anna Chlumsky

#8. No matter where we live, we have to use words. Once you've been looking into words, their stories, it's easy to fall in love with them.

Anu Garg

#9. The trouble with the world and the trouble with you and me is that we don't love each other enough. And if we do, we don't bother to show it, or we don't bother to say it. If the world is to know love, it has to be in your heart and in mine.

Marjorie Pay Hinckley

#10. Surviving isn't just about cutting out your heart and burning every feeling into ash. Sometimes it means taking what ever is thrown at you, beautiful or grotesque, poisonous or blissful, and carving out your life with the pieces you're given.

Roshani Chokshi

#11. Pornography is not in the hands of the child who discovers his sexuality by masturbating, but in the heart of the adult who slaps him.

Bernardo Bertolucci

#12. If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win.

Bjorn Borg

#13. We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.

E.L. Doctorow