quote wall

No particular order, no systematic method, just quotes that I like and find truth in. If you want to contribute, leave a comment!

"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely." Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"Hallward shook his head. 'You don't understand what friendship is, Harry,' he murmured--'or what enmity is, for that matter. You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.'" Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
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The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
J. R. R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)
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"'I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said Frodo. 'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.'" J. R. R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)
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"Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, my make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway." J. R. R. Tolkien (The Hobbit)
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"'Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends'" Gandalf, J. R. R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings). 
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"No one in government takes responsibility for anything anymore. We foster, we obfuscate, we rationalize. Everybody does it; that's what we say. So we come to occupy a moral safehouse where everyone's to blame so no one's guilty. I'm to blame. I was wrong." Jed Bartlett (The West Wing)
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"Often he would play his saddest tunes on the beach and pretend that the sea stopped its roaring to listen to them." Gaston Leroux (The Phantom of the Opera)
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"Raoul had to restrain himself not to cry out: 'I am jealous! I am jealous! I am jealous!' But she heard him all the same." Gaston Leroux (The Phantom of the Opera)
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"Then, casting a glance on the handsome young man, who was scarcely twenty-five years of age, and whom he was leaving in his gore, deprived of sense and perhaps dead, he gave a sigh for that unaccountable destiny which leads men to destroy each other for the interests of people who are strangers to them and who often do not even know that they exist." Alexandre Dumas 

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"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened." Winston Churchill

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"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read." GK Chesterton

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"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried." GK Chesterton

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"If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents - the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts - i.e., of Materialism and Astronomy - are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It's like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset." CS Lewis 

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"It is very easy to tell the difference between man-made and God-made objects. The more you magnify man-made objects, the cruder they look, but the more you magnify God-made objects, the more precise and intricate they appear." Luther Sutherland

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"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'" Isaac Asimov

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"We had come home. Or was it the other way around? Was it, indeed that we had left home, England and Oxford, the city of our souls, for foreign parts? It felt more like that." ~Sheldon Vanauken [A Severe Mercy]

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"On a great day the thing that makes it great may fill the least part of it-as a meal takes little time to eat, but the killing, baking and dressing, and the swilling and scrapping after it, take long enough." ~C. S. Lewis [Till We Have Faces]

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"I had always felt life first as a story, and if there is a story there is a storyteller." ~G. K. Chesterton [Orthodoxy]

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"Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them." ~G. K. Chesterton [Orthodoxy]

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"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" ~T. S. Eliot.

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"When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all." ~C. S. Lewis [Mere Christianity]

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"Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof." ~V [V for Vendetta]

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Be patient with everyone, but above all with thyself. I mean, do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. ~Francis de Sales

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It may be worth dying for, but is it worth living for? ~C.S. Lewis