Svatava Merkle Quotes

#1. I resigned myself to looking for that face that I clearly recalled - until the day when I couldn't. It happened so suddenly.

Melanie Benjamin

#2. It's better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#3. As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.

Banana Yoshimoto

#4. I have no use for the kind of God who goes walking in his garden with a stick, sends his friends to live in the bellies of whales, gives up the ghost with a groan and then comes back to life three days later!

Gustave Flaubert

#5. It is commonplace, and true, to point out that animals are happier than people because they live entirely in the present.

Linda Bender

#6. That he had no scruples; for, said he, when I fail in my duty, I readily acknowledge it, saying, I am used to do so: I shall never do otherwise, if I am left to myself. I fail not, then I give GOD thanks, acknowledging the strength comes from Him.

Brother Lawrence

#7. Bacamarte evidenced neither vanity nor modesty; he listened in silence, as impassive as a stone god.

Machado De Assis

#8. To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain technology from further encroachment and devastation of the resources of nature, is a piece of atavistic nonsense.

Norman Lamm