Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

Popular Topics
Once Upon A Time, Home, Funny, Religion, Quite, Mother'S Day, Nice, Body, Inspired, Wisdom, Thing, Hip Hop, Job, Looking For Love, Today, Wonderful, Willing, Food, Philosophy, Secret, Love You, Surprised, Evidence, Inspire, Flower, House, Town, Justice, Future, Good, Value Of Life, Positive, Love, Private Life, Worry, Period, Ideas, Lifetime, Identity, Happy, Thank You, Confidence, Integrity, World, Enthusiast, Relationships, Butterfly, Afternoon, Stories, Teacher
John Wyndham

There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just a part of the will to survive—yet, also, it has made it possible for us to engage in one weakening war after another. But it is a necessary part of our mechanism that we should be able to cry only for a time over even an ocean of spilt milk—the spectacular must soon become the commonplace if life is to be supportable.

Ocean, Phoenix, Possible, Quality, War, Will To Survive
Same Author Quotes

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

Brink, Echo, Echoes, Past, Unknown, Unknown Future

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

Day, Happens, Sounding, Sunday, Wednesday

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

Fuel, Needs, Simply, Understanding

. . . after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

Island, Islands, Planet, Planets, Space

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

Anyway, Dependent, Humiliating, Pass, Poorer, Stills
Similar Quotes