Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Dwelling beside a body of water is tonic for the weary psyche. Sea smells, sea birds, seawrack, sands - alternately cool, warm, moist and dry - a taste of brine and the presence of the rocking, slopping bluegraygreen spit-flecked waters, has the effect of rinsing the emotions, bathing the outlook, bleaching the conscience.

Roger Zelazny's Popular Quotes

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

- Roger Zelazny

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

- Roger Zelazny

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

- Roger Zelazny

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

- Roger Zelazny

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

- Roger Zelazny

I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can …

- Roger Zelazny

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

- Roger Zelazny

The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.

- Roger Zelazny

Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.

- Roger Zelazny