Assortment of Quotations

Some quotations I had landed upon or collected:

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. - Orkut 'Today's fortune'.

Never let your sense of morality stop you from doing what is right. - Orkut 'Today's fortune'.

... with everything that happens to you, with every pperson you meet who is important to you, you either die a little bit or are born. - 'The River' (film by Jean Renoir).

The tears we shed in our sleep are the only genuine tears we shed in our lives. The waking tears are self pity. - From 'The Golden Notebook', by Doris Lessing.

"My dear Anna, your attitude to art is so aristocratic that you write, when you do, for yourself only."

"And so do all the others, " I heard myself muttering.

"What others?"

"The others, all over the world, who are writing away in secret books, because they are afraid of what they are thinking."

- From 'The Golden Notebook', by Dorris Lessing.

... words are like the wind that blows ripples on the water's surface. The river itself blows beneath, unseen and unheard. - From 'The Hungry Tide', by Amitava Ghosh. (Interpretation: Words one manages to utter only touch the surface of the deepest expressions, the true meaning and feeling lies underneath.)

... the whole world is asleep - everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to - ... only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement. - 'Joe Vs The Volcano' (film).

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. - DH Lawrence (discovered from the movie 'The Debaters').

For whatsoever from one place doth fall,

Is with the tide unto another brought:

For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.

- Edmund Spencer (discovered from the movie 'Sense and Sensibility').

What is wisdom, but metamorphosised fear?

Living in a perpetual state of false hope is better than living with no hopes at all. Because, at least,all through the time while the hope lasted, you would have truly lived.