John Irving Quote

Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.

The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?

But I felt that it was my heart which was broken. Something had broken in me to make me so cold and so perfectly still and far away.

You grieve at first. And then slowly, with the yawning of the years, the disappeared gets scraped from your memory, the way your flesh can be peeled from your limbs. It's very harsh and extremely pain...

Prosperity cannot be experienced by living detached from Nature. Everything else is only a gradation of materialistic, earthly ambitions. We came from the stars and there lies the path to our substant...

As long as one can think as an outsider, an observer apart from the conflict, there is hope for a resolving thought.

I am a Piscean, and they have a lovingly detached attitude towards life.

Much, much later. when I am back home and being treated for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). I will be enabled to see what was going on in my mind immediately after 11 August.I am still capable...

He looked around. The room, a few suitcases, some belongings, a handful of well-read books— a man needed few things to live. And it was good not to get used to many things when life was unsettled. Aga...

. . . what matters in combat is adaptability, boldness and maintaining A cool exterior, whilst penetrating your enemy's soul with An icy cold stare- Diary of A Combat Fiend