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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 20598fe | I need someone whose mind falls like a chopper on a block; to whom the pitch of absurdity is sublime, and a shoestring adorable. To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion? | virginia-woolf | Virginia Woolf | |
| 81bec11 | What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the truth. Yes, one feels, I should never have thought that this could be so; I have never known people behaving like that. But you have convinced me that so it is, so it happens. One holds every phrase, every scene to the light as one reads--for Nature seems, very oddly, to have provided us with an inner light by which to judge of the.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| cabd808 | I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 0d36b59 | Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 5c4d17c | For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 558feff | But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 0dd6cf3 | And she wanted to say not one thing, but everything. Little words that broke up the thought and dismembered it said nothing. "About life, about death; about Mrs. Ramsay"--no, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up; then the idea sunk back again; then one became like most middle-aged people, cautious, fu.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 9b00929 | The people we are most fond of are not good for us when we are ill. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 9427860 | You don't see anything, do you? You see everything but the goddamn mind; you see all the little specs and crap, but you don't see what goes on, do you? | Edward Albee | ||
| 6983cb1 | For the truth is (let her ignore it) that human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| f85135a | Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 5e5136b | I am the foam that sweeps and fills the uttermost rims of the rocks with whiteness; I am also a girl, here in this room. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| f38a5b5 | Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters. | mother motherhood | Virginia Woolf | |
| 8e9e6ca | Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream. For I am by no means confining you to fiction. If you would please me - and .. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 43933e3 | It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred... | Virginia Woolf | ||
| e8d17a6 | a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 7d4278f | This world is full of the most outrageous nonsense. Sometimes things happen which you would hardly think possible. | Nikolai Gogol | ||
| 0ade401 | The broken branch hissed loudly, and then that wind was converted into these words: "Briefly will you be answered. When the fierce soul departs from the body from which it has uprooted itself, Minos sends it to the seventh mouth. It falls into the wood, and no place is assigned to it, but where chance hurls it, there it sprouts like a grain of spelt. It grows into a shoot, then a woody plant; the Harpies, feeding on its leaves, give it pain.. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 45797f2 | Considerate la vostra semenza: fatti non foste viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 5ef83fe | If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 319c253 | Before me there were no created things, Only eternity, and I too, last eternal. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here! | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 2f47992 | Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change. | humanity | David Gemmell | |
| 2fd3f20 | And what is a man? He is someone who rises when life has knocked him down. He is someone who raises his fist to heaven when a storm has ruined his crop--and then plants again. And again. A man remains unbroken by the savage twists of fate. That man may never win. But when he sees himself reflected, he can be proud of what he sees. For low he may be in the present scheme of things: peasant, serf, or dispossessed. But he is unconquerable | David Gemmell | ||
| bd041e9 | There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within. | good man | David Gemmell | |
| e370dbe | I don't want to because boys don't write poetry. Girls do. | Sharon Creech | ||
| 381e933 | The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d7f6609 | He told me that one of the reasons people are so unhappy is they don't talk to themselves. He said you have to keep a conversation going with yourself throughout your life to see how you're doing, to keep your focus, to remain your own friend. He told me that he talked to himself all the time, and that it helped him to grow stronger and better everyday. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4fca472 | In all of our lives, there are days that we wish we could see expunged from the record of our very existence. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| bb00bfc | She knew that the world was plainly divided into those who fought an unrelenting battle to live, and those who surrendered and died. This was a simple fact. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| dc145cc | The other day a monk told me, 'The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 98bffe0 | This sadness is one of the great trials of the human experiment. As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift - or curse, perhaps - of awareness about our own mortality. Everything here eventually dies; we're just the lucky ones who get to think about this fact every day. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4dec5b0 | You must learn how to become a deeply disciplined half-ass. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7ada459 | The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6075242 | Once Henry had heard a crying noise at sea, and had seen a mermaid floating on the ocean's surface. The mermaid had been injured by a shark. Henry had pulled the mermaid out of the water with a rope, and she had died in his arms..."what language did the mermaid speak?" Alma wanted to know, imagining that it like almost have to be Greek. "English!" Henry said. "By God, plum, why would I rescue a deuced foreign mermaid?" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b3a7575 | The whole sphere of air that surrounds us, Alma, is alive with invisible attractions -- electric, magnetic, fiery and thoughtful. There is a universal sympathy all around us... When we cease all argument and debate -- both internal and external -- our true questions can be heard and answered...That is the gathering of magic. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 060a7a6 | mn lshl `lyn 'n nd`w wnHnu fy lshd@ , wlkn lstmrr fy ld` b`d mrwr l'zm@ hw 'shbh bDmn ys`d lrwH `l~ ltmsk bnjzth ljyd@ . | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c1acbd3 | This person had arrived, he had illuminated her, he had ensorcelled her with notions of miracle and beauty, he had both understood and misunderstood her, he had married her, he had broken her heart, he had looked upon her with those sad and hopeless eyes, he had accepted his banishment, and now he was gone. What a stark and stunning thing was life- that such a cataclysm can enter and depart so quickly, and leave such wreckage behind! | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3e9cae1 | The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people. | happiness life | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 82e7a43 | For the more a man has in himself, the less he will want from other people,--the less, indeed, other people can be to him. This is why a high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial. True, | Arthur Schopenhauer | ||
| a6da02f | In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means. | Arthur Schopenhauer | ||
| 7f25a52 | Why is it that, in spite of all the mirrors in the world, no one really knows what he looks like? | Arthur Schopenhauer | ||
| 496a244 | What keeps all living things busy and in motion is the striving to exist. But when existence is secured, they do not know what to do: that is why the second thing that sets them in motion is a striving to get rid of the burden of existence, not to feel it any longer, 'to kill time', i.e. to escape boredom. | existence | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| 05994d1 | The ingenious person will above all strive for freedom from pain and annoyance, for tranquility and leisure, and consequently seek a quiet, modest life, as undisturbed as possible, and accordingly, after some acquaintance with so-called human beings, choose seclusion and, if in possession of a great mind, even solitude. For the more somebody has in himself, the less he needs from the outside and the less others can be to him. Therefore, int.. | solitude unsociability | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| 2d10ec5 | We should treat with indulgence every human folly, failing, and vice, bearing in mind that what we have before us are simply our own failings, follies, and vices. For they are just the failings of mankind to which we also belong and accordingly we have all the same failings buried within ourselves. We should not be indignant with others for these vices simply because they do not appear in us at the moment. | Irvin D. Yalom |