Unaccidental Quotes

#1. If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward
destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.

Hermann Hesse

#2. No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion.

Virginia Woolf

#3. Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

Orson Welles

#4. His dark head bowed, became lost in its own shadow.

Marie Rutkoski

#5. We are what we do, especially what we do to change what we are ... In
this respect a "revolutionary" literature written for the convinced is just as
much an abandonment as is a conservative literature devoted to the ...
contemplation of one's own navel.

Eduardo Galeano

#6. Give me my sin again.

William Shakespeare

#7. No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

W. H. Auden

#8. There are many fish in the sea, but to catch the right one you need God's help.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. She wondered what it sounded like when your heart broke. Glass shattering? The thundering roar of falling mountains? Or maybe the squishy rip of a real heart?

Jen Wylie

#10. Animals are sentient creatures. I love them very much. I do not feel that we have the right to torture, murder, and abuse them for our own disgusting dietary and fashion wants and needs.

Davey Havok

#11. When you feel an audience engaged and surprised and enthusiastic, reacting to what you've planned, that is the reward. It's better than the Emmys.

George Stevens Jr.

#12. Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero