The Sound of Goodbye

Quotes That Grab Me

Scarlet Paolicchi
2 min readNov 10, 2019

“The silence is louder than thunder and it rings with the sound of goodbye.” Crystal Gayle

“Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can’t explain them, and those who haven’t known them have no understanding of them at all.” ― From The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

“Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That’s what lies do.” ― From The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

“Nothing in this world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.” -From The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

“I could endure it all, ill-usage, solitude, a life of deception, everything, as long as I could still cling to the hope that I had his love, but now I know that in this also I have been his dupe and his tool.” -From The Hound Of Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer’s day.” -From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

“He was trying to gather up the scarlet threads of life, and to weave them into a pattern; to find his way through the sanguine labyrinth of passion through which he was wandering.” -From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.”-From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

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Scarlet Paolicchi
Scarlet Paolicchi

Written by Scarlet Paolicchi

Nashville family blogger. Sharing all things family related as well as random thoughts and short fictional stories. https://familyfocusblog.com

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