Very - Quotes
Some people find safety in the institution of marriage or some sort of a further commitment. Others think that if you`re in a very happy relationship, why mess with it?
Poetry is a very subjective and intimate expression. It`s literally your heartbeat. Your rhythm. The song of your soul. It`s superconcentrated. It`s a dense piece of yourself.
It`s a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that`s very difficult, really difficult and very brave.
Strife makes a man strong. For if a man is capable of confronting death daily, functioning in the face of it, there`s no telling what else that man can do, and a man whose limits cannot be known is a very hard man to defeat in battle.
There can be no eternal life because the very basis of life is its transient and dynamic nature.
The motives by which we act are inscribed in our intimate structure as mammals, as hunters, as social beings: reason illuminates these connections, it does not generate them. We are not, in the first place, reasoning beings. We may perhaps become so, more or less, in the second. In the first instance, we are driven by a thirst for life, by hunger, by the need to love, by the instinct to find our place in human society... The second instance does not even exist without the first. Reason arbitrates between instincts but uses the very same instincts as primary criteria in its arbitration.
Reality is often very different from what it seems. The Earth appears to be flat but is in fact spherical. The sun seems to revolve in the sky when it is really we who are spinning.
It is very hard to ignore something once it has been found - even if ignoring it is the right thing to do.
Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.
The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren`t in a very good mood.
My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like - but truer than the literal truth.
Not sure if you know this
But when we first met
I got so nervous I couldn`t speak
In that very moment
I found the one and
My life had found its missing piece.
You don`t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is "I don`t know".