We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
– Anaïs Nin
Tag: often
The marks humans leave …
The marks humans leave are too often scars.
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Every man has his secret sorrows …
Every man has his secret sorrows
which the world knows not;
and often times we call a man cold
when he is only sad.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have often …
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
– Xenocrates
Often the …
Often the thought of pain is actually worse that the pain itself.
– Greg Behrendt
With their …
With their minuscule families, humans are often
forced to rely on a “state” or a “nation” for support.
They might as well dig their hives in sand.
– Fragment of a Than-thre-kull anthropology text, approx CY 7956
Worlds governed …
Worlds governed by artificial intelligence
often learned a hard lesson: Logic Doesn’t Care.
– YIN-MAN WEI, “This Present Darkness: A History of the Interregnum”, CY 11956
Good husbands …
Good husbands make unhappy wifes
so do bad husbands, just as often;
but the unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating
than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.
– D. H. Lawrence