Letters Quotes


To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest.. H.P. Lovecraft Letters 170
A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation -- a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something. Samuel Johnson Letters 121
Its funny in this era of email and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy. Elizabeth Kostova Letters 116
Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink. A.S. Byatt Letters 112
Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak. John Donne Letters 104
Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment. Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey Letters 103
Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. Lord (George Gordon) Byron Letters 93
All the letters from A to Z couldnt express what you mean to me. Not without cloning them and using some over and over Jarod Kintz Letters 93
Taxes and Texasthey have the same letters but only one can go to hell. Jarod Kintz Letters 92
He advertido de pronto que en realidad no recuerdo su rostro en detalle. Slo creo ver an su figura su vestido mientras usted se alejaba entre las mesas del caf. Franz Kafka Letters 90
Generally people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. Theyve got plenty of life to lead inside their own context. Haruki Murakami Letters 88
Andrew is such a diplomatic name. Or at least it is for the first three letters as and is a word that works hard to join things together and promote cohesiveness. Jarod Kintz Letters 85
A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath. Friedrich Nietzsche Letters 83
Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one! Sir John A. Macdonald Letters 79
I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. Blaise Pascal Letters 77
atque illi artifices corporis simulacra ignotis nota faciebant quae uel si nulla nihilo sint tamen obscuriores clari uiri. Marcus Tullius Cicero Letters 77
When I told the therapist that the me that I am now is the best me I can be I was truthful. Ive always given you my best so when you say its not enough it chips away at the best me. Darnell Lamont Walker Letters 72
dear today i spend all of you pretending im okay when im not pretending im happy when im not pretending about everything to everyone. Nina LaCour Letters 72
I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter. Letter 16 1657 Blaise Pascal Letters 70
...but I much prefer whining to counting my blessings. Mary Ann Shaffer Letters 70
Letters are no matter of indifference they are generally a very positive curse. Jane Austen Letters 70
Successful people no matter how busy seem to make time to write letters. Mark Demoss Letters 69
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence Letters 68
Not numbering and counting but ripening like a tree. Rainer Maria Rilke Letters 68
Some people write letters in the library. Margaret Atwood Letters 68
SIR, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,For thus, friends absent speak. John Donne Letters 67
The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day. Sara Zarr Letters 66
It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir. Henry Miller Letters 57
Because thou writest me often I thank thee ... Never do I receive a letter from thee but immediately we are together. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Letters 56
We have had for breakfast toasts cakes a yorkshire pie a piece of beef about the size and much the shape of my portmanteau tea coffee ham and eggs... Charles Dickens Letters 56
But youre sleep and youre a few miles away and I have no means to get to you right now so Im writing. Darnell Lamont Walker Letters 55
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. Johann von Goethe Letters 55
Some people collect stamps while I collect letters. My favorite ones are the rare ones like Q and X. Jarod Kintz Letters 53
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. Samuel Butler Letters 52
Letters to absence can a voice impart,And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart. Horace Walpole Letters 51
We lay aside letters never to read them again and at last destroy them out of discretion and so disappears the most beautiful the most immediate breath of life irrecoverably for ourselves and for others. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Letters 50
A Letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the Mind alone, without corporeal friend? Emily Dickinson Letters 49
Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient. E. M. Forster Letters 47
I really should be studying now but youre much more important to me than a .50 calibre machine gun. Kara Martinelli Letters 47
I often fantasize about torturing some of the lazier letters of the alphabet like C U and E because together they only manage to accomplish as much as the solitary letter Q. Jarod Kintz Letters 43
But writing poems and letters doesnt seem to do much good. Sylvia Plath Letters 43
Im bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden. Kristin Cashore Letters 41
I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. Henry David Thoreau Letters 40
Your letter filled the hole in my day like a key. Turn it. Bill Callahan Letters 40
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. Sydney Smith Letters 39
Embossed letters represent the topography of typography. Jarod Kintz Letters 38
But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears to an overruling Providence in which unfashionable as the Faith may be I firmly believe. John Adams Letters 37
Venerable are letters infinitely brave forlorn and lost. Virginia Woolf Letters 37
Saki says that youth is like hors doeuvres you are so busy thinking of the next courses you dont notice it. When youve had them you wish youd had more hors doeuvres. Philip Larkin Letters 36
But hell I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing books. Edward Abbey Letters 36

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