Happened Quotes - Page 29

• All we have to face in the future is what has happened in the past. It is unbearable.

  Maeve Brennan

  Past, Faces, Unbearable

  Maeve Brennan (1998). “The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In all my life I'd never been approached this way, the car pulling up, the Where you going? It was something I wish had happened hundreds of times. I was a looker - someone who looked over at every car at every traffic light, hoping something would happen, and almost never finding anyone looking back - always everyone looking forwards, and every time I felt stupid. Why should people look at you? Why should they care?

  Dave Eggers

  Stupid, Light, People

  Dave Eggers (2009). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.221, Vintage

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• Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.

  J. K. Rowling

  Integrity, Boys, Choices

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• I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Want, Profession

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• Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show.

  Nick Drake

  Memories, Sadness, Long Ago

  Song: Fruit Tree

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• There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it happened, or why it ends, or why or who you are. You want one and I want one, but there isn't one. It comes in bits and pieces, and you stitch them together wherever they fit, and when you are done you hold yourself up, and still there are holes and you are a rag doll, invented, imperfect. And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Together, Want, Way

  "Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia". Book by Marya Hornbacher, www.glamour.com. 1998.

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• i want to hear what's happened to you," she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. "it's just that there is nowhere else to start," she said gently. "niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.

  Louise Erdrich

  Rivers, Different, Want

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• Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Diaries, Chronicles

  "Epigrams & Aphorisms".

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• There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

  Harold Pinter

  Truth, Memories, May

  Harold Pinter (2013). “Harold Pinter Plays 3: The Homecoming; Old Times; No Man’s Land”, p.219, Faber & Faber

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• In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

  Carl Sagan

  Change, Learning, Humility

  Keynote address at CSICOP conference in 1987. "Do Science and the Bible Conflict?" Book by Judson Poling, p. 30, 2003.

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• But I must go on," said the Lady Amalthea, "for it is never finished. Even when I wake, I cannot tell what is real, and what I am dreaming as I move and speak and eat my dinner. I remember what cannot have happened, and forget something that is happening to me know. People look at me as though I should know them, and I do know them in the dream, and always the fire draws me nearer, though I am awake—

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dream, Real, Moving

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• I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.

  A. A. Milne

  Rabbits, Apple Pie, Way

  A. A. Milne (2002). “Tigger Tales”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone's joy seemed to double it?

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Hurt, Two, People

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.95, Penguin

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• I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Death, Wish, Fellowship

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Truth, Book, Reading

  Esquire, Dec. 1934

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• A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Men, Russia, Forgotten

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• This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.

  Lorrie Moore

  Relationship, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from May 16, 2012

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• All this happened, more or less.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Slaughterhouse Five, Chaos, Slaughterhouse 5

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.112, Infobase Publishing

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• They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Trying, Impossible, Lifetime

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2004). “The Namesake: A Novel”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked down tables of fried food, overturned Indians' stalls and lottery kiosks, and bit four people who happened to cross its path.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Dog, Sunday, White

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• Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

  Mark Twain

  Summer, Education, Children

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.46, Chartwell

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• Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way.

  Ellen Gilchrist

  World, Care, Way

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• If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer. That is my name.

  Richard Brautigan

  Thinking, Names, Long

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He said he would come in,' the White Queen went on, `because he was looking for a hippopotamus. Now, as it happened, there wasn't such a thing in the house, that morning.' Is there generally?' Alice asked in an astonished tone. Well, only on Thursdays,' said the Queen.

  Lewis Carroll

  Morning, Queens, White

  Lewis Carroll “Alice Through the Looking Glass”, Lulu.com

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• When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Lonely, People, Complaining

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.78, Cambridge University Press

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