Trickery In Life Quotes

#1. The whole sickening trickery in life
the idea that one cannot fight for one's humanity without, ironically, losing it ... that trickery is the real enemy and the very essence of the thing we must continually be on our guard against.

Vivian Gornick

#2. No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year
ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge
and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. The storms inside uncoil
into sky held calm by far seeing eyes
Memories dressed in the translucent
trickery of the mind,
so as to wear life upon themselves,
give up their tired dance and run
into free frequency

Tamara Rendell

#4. I can sing; I can hold a tune.

Brandon Adams

#5. A day to God is a thousand years,
Men walk around with a thousand fears.
The true joy of love brings a thousand tears,
In the world of desire, there's a thousand snares.

RZA

#6. This means she's mine. No one touches what's mine. And they sure as fuck don't beat her, rape her and leave her broken. Did you see her fuckin' house?

Kristen Ashley

#7. They're animals, all right. But why are you so sure that makes us human beings?

Richard Bachman

#8. The chow mein fairy has entered the building.

Angela Marsons

#9. Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through genuine, all-out engagement with others that people can polish their character, and help each other to reach greater heights.

Daisaku Ikeda

#10. There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.

Thomas Campion

#11. To tell a lie is to risk being caught out and there's excitement in avoiding traps: it was an aspect of my childhood I was perhaps averse to relinquishing.

Glenn Haybittle

#12. If you are brave, you will open the book and read it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.

Malcolm Forbes

#14. He seemed to resonate with a kind of confidence that life was still nothing but a joke - an endless succession of soccer goals, trickery, and a constant repertoire of meaningless chatter.

Markus Zusak

#15. There are secrets everywhere. Answers nowhere.

Tahereh Mafi

#16. When I'm not working, I want to be the version of the person that I was born to be. I was born with curly hair. It fits my personality, and it's totally who I am. I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl.

Erin Wasson

#17. And whenever the prime concern in life is money-making, then you have trickery and brutality and wrong. I'm saying that, not from what I have heard, but from what I have observed in a long life among our own folk.

Neil M. Gunn

#18. I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me.

Antonio Banderas

#19. Suzanne: I'd rather be single than in an unfulfilling relationship.

Gemma Burgess