Easier Quotes - Page 10

• One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven't treated very well; it's much easier than accepting guilt. If we can convince ourselves that the people we betrayed or enslaved were subhuman monsters in the first place, then our guilt isn't nearly so black as we secretly know that it is. Humans are very, very good at shifting blame and avoiding guilt.

  David Eddings

  Betrayal, Hate, Acceptance

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• [He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Expression, Nephew, Wish

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• Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.

  Jack Kerouac

  Fall, Jumping, Boulders

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.65, Penguin

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• It’s so much easier to walk away than it is to have to explain to someone that you never want to see them again.

  Meg Cabot

  Want, Walks

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• It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact. ~ Sherlock Holmes

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Two, Four, Might

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes - The Novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear”, p.17, BoD - Books on Demand

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• Beautiful. You can be taught. Makes my job so much easier when you’re actually intelligent. You’d be amazed at the idiots I’ve come across.” – Death “I try to keep my stupid to a bare minimum, since my mom’s always telling me it can be fatal in large doses.” – Nick “Oh, she’s right. Believe me, I know. For that matter, it can be fatal even in small measures. Remind me sometime to tell you about the woman I claimed who was vacuuming her cat.” – Death

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beautiful, Mom, Jobs

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• To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

  Joyce Cary

  Heart, Forgiving, Genius

  Joyce Cary (1958). “First trilogy: Herself surprised: To be a pilgrim. The horse's mouth”

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• There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it’s not backed up by anything but fear.

  Mira Grant

  Hate, People

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.84, Hachette UK

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• Suffering is easier to endure when shared.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Suffering, Endure

  Jonathan Maberry (2010). “Rot & Ruin”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and contolled it, whereas the sadness owned her.

  Ann Brashares

  Sadness

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.124, Random House

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• When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.

  Joe Hill

  Thinking, Ideas, Sin

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• [...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Splendor, Deals

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• So you should be able to see them clearly in your imagination. We always find it easier to visualize what we fear; it's what keeps us afraid of the dark.

  Michael Scott

  Dark, Virginia, Imagination

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• It doesn't take any effort to dream. It's a lot easier than looking at the problems in front of you and figuring out what you're going to do about them. But all you're doing is putting your problems up on a shelf for later, right? That doesn't make them go away.

  Fuyumi Ono

  Dream, Effort, Going Away

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• Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?

  Jeff Lindsay

  Insanity, Accepting, Unconsciousness

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.149, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.

  Jim Butcher

  Writing, Monsters, Littles

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.269, Penguin

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• I can't imagine how anyone can say: "I'm weak," and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? The answer was: "Because it's so much easier not to!

  Anne Frank

  Character, Fighting, Trying

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.165, GENERAL PRESS

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• Being active every day makes it easier to hear that inner voice.

  Haruki Murakami

  Voice, Active, Inner Voice

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• Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets?

  Cornelia Funke

  Children, Thinking, Horror Stories

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.137, Scholastic Inc.

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• The goal of my life isn't just... to be happy. 'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?

  Veronica Roth

  Goal, Ifs

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.64, Harper Collins

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• Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never grow up. And nobody ever finishes growing. Or shouldn't. If you stop you might as well quit. What I have to tell you is that it never gets any easier. It goes right on being rough forever. But nothing that's easy is worth anything. You ought to have learned that by now. What happens as you keep on growing is that all of a sudden you realize that it's more exciting and beautiful than scary and awful.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Beautiful, Growing Up, People

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• I can’t have it either. It affects the babies in utero.” “Nonsense,” he said, tossing his long auburn hair over one shoulder. Life would be easier if he wasn’t so damned good-looking. “Why, my mother drank wine every day, and I turned out just fine.” “I think you’re proving my point for me,” I said dryly

  Richelle Mead

  Mother, Baby, Wine

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Shadow Heir”, p.16, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Trust me, the being-dead part is much easier than the dying part. If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Practice, Surfing, Dying

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.1, Random House

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• I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.

  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  Doe, Guarantees, Achieve

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• ..but maybe this was a defense mechanism. Maybe my mind was making me see things I refused to accept were gone forever. It was filling the void, because that was easier than letting go.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Letting Go, Forever, Mind

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