Ungained Quotes

#1. Women are angels, wooing:
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing:
That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this
Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

William Shakespeare

#2. In learning about the myths and legends of old, we learn something of ourselves. Stories, Maisie, are never just stories. They contain fundamental truths about the human condition.

Jacqueline Winspear

#3. Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.

Banana Yoshimoto

#4. I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.

Dave Matthews

#5. Poetry is the way I fuck you when you're gone.

Nicola Cayless

#6. A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.

Henry Rollins

#7. This IS exactly how things look just before your dreams ignite!

Liz Hester

#8. Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.

Carine Roitfeld

#9. Regrets are hollow things.

Ann Werner

#10. But spite is a wonderful thing for keeping people alive.

Stefan Zweig

#11. I think that skateboarding can absolutely help make peace ... I know skateboarding can bring people together. You can travel anywhere and if someone's skateboarding, they like you regardless of where you're from or what you do. You skateboard and that's it.

Jamie Thomas

#12. Perhaps the seeds of redemption lay not just in perseverance, hard work, and rugged individualism. Perhaps they lay in something more fundamental - the simple notion of everyone pitching in and pulling together.

Daniel James Brown

#13. If you are intimidated by the artists who came before you, understand you too have a place, right next to them.

Tavi Gevinson