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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6179be3 | Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect. | Victor Hugo | ||
| c938170 | People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 32655ca | At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 25d5224 | There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 65afee7 | There are things stronger than the strongest man... | Victor Hugo | ||
| 2e9a6a3 | He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved in the darkness by the visible splendors of the constellations, and the invisible splendor of God, opening his soul to the thoughts which fall from the Unknown. In such moments, offering up his heart at the hour when the flowers of night inhale their perfume, lighted like a lamp in the center of the starry.. | god night-sky stars | Victor Hugo | |
| 3286149 | He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around. | leo-tolstoy love | Leo Tolstoy | |
| a50a60d | Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same. When alone he had a dreadful and distressing desire to call someone, but he knew beforehand that with others present it would be still worse. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| dc290b3 | We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do? | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 392a054 | Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 0cad514 | I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 802a0d5 | He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 4f3b706 | And this then, that I am feeling now, is the hell that comes with love, the hell and the damnation and the agony beyond all enduring, because after the beauty and the loveliness comes the sorrow and the pain. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 20c83ad | I choose this," I say, my voice ragged with want. "I choose you." | beth-revis love | Beth Revis | |
| 739e847 | What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife? | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 02e170f | The human child - so much cannier at times than the stupefyingly ponderous adult. | Markus Zusak | ||
| c37841f | I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes?" You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement." | Markus Zusak | ||
| f2e5c09 | It's about glowing lights and small things that are big. | Markus Zusak | ||
| e2ea590 | Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets. | poets sages saints | George Eliot | |
| ee53f57 | If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it. | George Eliot | ||
| 5ec1e49 | If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women... | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 0baf4ab | I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| cc1d895 | We're all in the dark. We try to find out, but can you imagine anything more ludicrous than one person's opinion of another person? One goes along thinking one knows; but one really doesn't know | Virginia Woolf | ||
| a5ba295 | He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not be forgiven. A man who leaves the house in bright, festive clothes needs only one drop of mud splashed from under a wheel, and people all surround him, point their fingers at him, and talk about his slovenliness, while the same people ignore many spots on other passers-by who are wearing everyday clothes. For on everyday cl.. | Nikolai Gogol | ||
| 8a905e0 | Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think. | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| 46e4ecd | I wasn't going to have enough money to pay for a Good Lifestyle, which meant I'd feel ashamed, which meant I'd get depressed, and that was the big one because I knew what that did to me: it made it so I wouldn't get out of bed, which led to the ultimate thing--homelessness. If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away. | homelessness | Ned Vizzini | |
| 43306cd | The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it--even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them. | inspirational-quotes | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 5d03aea | Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one. Americans spend billions to keep themselves amused with everything from porn to theme parks to wars, but that's not exactly the same thing as quiet enjoyment. Americans work harder and longer and more stressful hours than anyone in the world today. But...we seem to like it.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| bdff10f | Oh my God, baby, you are in so much trouble. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ede4118 | A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8a0041d | Please go to this pizzeria. Order the margherita pizza with double mozzarella. If you do not eat this pizza when you are in Naples, please lie to me and tell me that you did. | humor | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 8b1983d | I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't help smiling: 'We're gonna need a bigger boat. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7942b8a | Why must everything be repeat and repeat, never finish, never resting? You work so hard one day, but the next day you must only work again. You eat, but the next day, you are already hungry. You find love, then love goes away. You are born with nothing, you work hard, then you die with nothing. You are young, then you are old. No matter how hard you work, you cannot stop getting old. - Wayan | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 70d5502 | What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation. | satisfaction sublime tragedy | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| 25b5395 | In the shower today I tried to think about the best advice I'd ever been given by another writer. There was something that someone said at my first Milford, about using style as a covering, but sooner or later you would have to walk naked down the street, that was useful... And then I remembered. It was Harlan Ellison about a decade ago. He said, "Hey. Gaiman. What's with the stubble? Every time I see you, you're stubbly. What is it? Some k.. | author neil-gaiman | Neil Gaiman | |
| 0c13717 | We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 41ab8e1 | I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear. Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out. | dreams sandman | Neil Gaiman | |
| 3b76a10 | There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine. | mythical-beasts stardust | Neil Gaiman | |
| 1c37a57 | Have you ever spent days and days and days making up flavors of ice cream that no one's ever eaten before? Like chicken and telepone ice cream? Green mouse ice cream was the worst. I didn't like that at all. | ice-cream | Neil Gaiman | |
| 9087173 | Jesus. Low-Key Lyesmith," said Shadow. and then he heard what he was saying and he understood. "Loki," he said. "Loki Lie-smith." "You're slow," said Loki, "but you get there in the end." And his lips twisted into a scarred smile and the embers danced in the shadows of his eyes." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| b5a1589 | In every big-budget science fiction movie there's the moment when a spaceship as large as New York suddenly goes to light speed. A twanging noise like a wooden ruler being plucked over the edge of a desk, a dazzling refraction of light, and suddenly the stars have all been stretched out thin and it's gone. This was exactly like that, except that instead of a gleaming twelve-mile-long spaceship, it was an off-white twenty-year-old motor scoo.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| ef8c247 | You can know anything. It's all there. You just have to find it. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| ab4d6a5 | Silver chains come in all shapes and sizes. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 21492af | There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses. | George Bernard Shaw |