Till I loved I never lived.

-- Emily Dickinson, The Retribution of Mara Dyer

Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

-- Michael Cunningham, The Hours

He loves her for everything she is and is not. She’s old enough to appreciate that.

-- Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney, Asha in Time

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

-- William Blake, The Inner Life

I help others because I can, not because I expect something in return.

-- Amy Manemann, Deadly Reunion

I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave

-- Bob Dylan, Death Masks

It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be...

-- Bob Dylan, Death in Venice and Other Tales

AZRAEL: No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air.

-- Kevin Smith, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

任何值得前往的地方，都沒有捷徑。

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

-- 貝弗利．希爾斯，美國女高音歌唱家

Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.

-- Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Prophet

It's impossible to be unhappy while wearing a poncho!

-- Noel Fielding, Love in the Time of Cholera

Those who wish to sing always find a song.

-- Swedish Proverb, Conquistadora

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

-- John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

知識之島愈大，景觀海岸線愈長。

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

-- 雷夫‧薩克曼，美國知名牧師

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

-- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

改變是人生的定律。只專注於過去和現在的人，必將錯過未來。

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

-- 約翰．甘迺迪，前美國總統

And this have I found, that man was made upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

-- Compton Gage, Education: An Essay And Other Selections

The path of light is the quest for knowledge.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

-- Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear