quotes about homelessness

My heaviness comes from the heights. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



I have never resisted the lord in my life, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own. ~Orson Scott Card



God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays. ~E.M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born, 1973



It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. ~Franklin P. Jones



The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? ~Dale Carnegie



When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage. ~Bill Balance



The time to begin most things is ten years ago. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~Hal Borland



"What's for dinner?" is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. ~Woodrow Wilson



The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. ~Pamela Hansford Johnson



The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had. ~Eric Schmidt



Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. ~Theodore Dreiser, 1900



Sometimes I get the feeling the aspirin companies are sponsoring my headaches. ~Terri Guillemets



We don't stop at our skin. ~Dolores Krieger, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine



They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. ~Ernest Hemingway



Flowers really do intoxicate me. ~Vita Sackville-West



The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. ~Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead



If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself. ~H.L. Mencken



Success has made failures of many men. ~Cindy Adams