329 Quotes About Opening-lines

i believe your tragedies, your losses , your sorrows ,your hurt happen for you not to you. And i bless the thing that broke you down and cracked you open because world need you open.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

It was in that year when the fashion in cruelty demanded not only the crucifixion of peasant children, but a similar fate for their household animals, that I first met Lucifer and was transported into Hell; for the Prince of Darkness wished to strike a bargain with me.

If a lioness spends her hours pacing back and forth in a cage of gold with the finest meats at her disposal, does that make her any less of a prisoner? If that same feline’s fangs are filed down to blunt, un-tearing teeth and her roar is silenced, can she still be called a lioness?

This year had been one for the books. And by that, Jason meant a book that got doused in gasoline, set on fire, and kicked over a cliff.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Here we are, alone again. It's all so slow, so heavy, so sad. . . I'll be old soon. Then at last it will be over. So many people have come into my room. They've talked. They haven't said much. They've gone away. They've grown old, wretched, sluggish, each in some corner of the world.

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?