Quotes about Things
There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.
- Virginia Woolf
I like observing people. I like looking at things.
- Virginia Woolf
Children never forget injustice. They forgive heaps of things grown-up people mind; but that sin is the unpardonable sin.
- Virginia Woolf
Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
- Thomas Merton
I wanted to hear sounds of everyday objects - even musical instruments - as things.
- Ryuichi Sakamoto
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
- Confucius
All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.
- Cormac McCarthy
All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.
- Cormac McCarthy
There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge.
- JI Packer
It is lawful to love all things and to seek them, once they become means to the love of God. There is nothing we cannot ask of Him if we desire it in order that He may be more loved by ourselves or by other men.
- Thomas Merton
To see how seriously men take things and yet how little their seriousness profits them. Their tragedy makes our mediocrity all the more terrible.
- Thomas Merton
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
- Kay Arthur