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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e82ce64 | Leeches are singing in my asshole. | David Sedaris | ||
| c544cdb | On the plane from Paris I heard a man say, "The first thing I'm going to do when I get home is order a Big Gulp. I'm going to supersize everything!" He said he'd been thirsty the entire time he was in Paris, and though I'd never thought about it, if you're used to carrying a trash-can-size cup filled with crushed ice and soda, I suppose it would be hard to spend a few weeks in Europe." | David Sedaris | ||
| 587d349 | My mother was, for the most part, delighted with my brother and regarded him with the bemused curiosity of a brood hen discovering she has hatched a completely different species. 'I think it was very nice of Paul to give me this vase,' she once said, arranging a bouquet of wildflowers into the skull-shaped bong my brother had left on the kitchen table. 'It's nontraditional, but that's the Rooster's way. He's a free spirit, and we're lucky t.. | family humor satire drugs | David Sedaris | |
| ce4fc91 | Comfort has its place, but it seems rude to visit another country dressed as if you've come to mow its lawns. | David Sedaris | ||
| ce6accd | In imagining myself as modest, mysterious, and fiercely intelligent, I'm forced to realize that, in real life, I am none of these qualities. Nobody dreams of the things he already has. | David Sedaris | ||
| 4578e30 | Dad wants to talk about her death--he needs to--but unlike the rest of us, who yak incessantly about our feelings, he has no vocabulary for it and is reduced to the cliches you'd find on a sympathy card. It's like not knowing a language. | David Sedaris | ||
| 1873fa8 | It's not lost on me that I'm so busy recording life, I don't have time to really live it. I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the magnificent Brueghel, take a picture of it, reducing it from art to proof. It's not "Look what Brueghel did, painted this masterpiece" but "Look what I did, went to Rotterdam and stood in front of a Brueghel painting!" | David Sedaris | ||
| 955c2a9 | My only comfort was the knowledge that I was not alone. Huddled in the hallways and making the most of our pathetic French, my fellow students and I engaged in the sort of conversation commonly overheard in refugee camps. "Sometime me cry alone at night." "That be common for I, also, but be more strong, you. Much work and someday you talk pretty. People start love you soon. Maybe tomorrow, okay." | humor french-language language-learning students | David Sedaris | |
| 1b171ab | You're not supposed to talk about your good deeds, I know. It effectively negates them and in the process makes people hate you. | David Sedaris | ||
| db255e9 | It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate. | place smoking | David Sedaris | |
| 3297a76 | Honestly, though, does choice even come into it? Is it my fault that the good times fade to nothing while the bad ones burn forever bright? | David Sedaris | ||
| a016002 | Someone in our family had taken to wiping his or her ass on the bath towels. What made this exceptionally disturbing was that all our towels were fudge-colored. You'd be drying your hair when, too late, you noticed an unmistakable odor on your hands, head, and face. | David Sedaris | ||
| 854443a | It's time to demythologise an era and build a new myth from the gutter to the stars. It's time to embrace bad men and the price they paid to secretly define their time. | James Ellroy | ||
| ec4a178 | You can't make history all the time, Dougie. Sometimes the best you can do is make money. | James Ellroy | ||
| af256fa | He used to pimp and pull shakedowns. Now he rode shotgun to History. | James Ellroy | ||
| de9f1d9 | I didn't care who we were. I required no consummation. I knew that whoever we were and whatever we had would never stop. | James Ellroy | ||
| 7820af2 | I got an alibi, just in case you think I did it. Tighter than a crab's ass, and that is tight. | James Ellroy | ||
| 475ae0f | I never knew her in life. She exists for me through others, in evidence of the ways her death drove them | murder noir | James Ellroy | |
| 6fbea7b | Sometimes I felt connections begging to be made, sometimes I cursed myself for not having ten percent more gray matter, sometimes the report carbons just made me think of Lee. | James Ellroy | ||
| de99250 | Mit Kummer, und doch auch mit Lachen, gedachte er jener Zeit. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| c88089f | el habia pensado mas que otros hombres, poseia en asuntos del espiritu aquella serena objetividad, aquella segura reflexividad y sabiduria que solo tienen las personas verdaderamente espirituales, a las que falta toda ambicion y nunca desean brillas, ni convencer a los demas, ni siquiera tener razon. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 81f6c32 | Why was it, do you think, I was able to recognise you and understand you?" "Why, Hermine? Tell me!" "Because it's the same for me as you because I am alone exactly as you are, because I'm as little fond of life and people and myself as you are and can put up with them as little. There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness." | life | Hermann Hesse | |
| 74539d5 | There's a big difference between merely carrying the world inside you and knowing that you do! A madman can produce ideas that resemble Plato's, and a pious little schoolboy in a Herrnhut institute can creatively reconstruct profound mythological associations in his mind, ideas to be found in the Gnostics or Zoroaster. But he doesn't know he's doing it! He's a tree or a stone, at best an animal, just as long as he doesn't know that. But whe.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 4e97412 | Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else. | wisdom | Hermann Hesse | |
| 79319f2 | In course of time I was more and more conscious, too, that this affliction was not due to any defects of nature, but rather to a profusion of gifts and powers which had not attained to harmony. I saw that Haller was a genius of suffering and that in the meaning of many sayings of Nietzsche he had created within himself with positive genius a boundless and frightful capacity of pain. I saw at the same time that the root of his pessimism was .. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 1034257 | kl m tf`lh fy hdh lsyq hw 'n tkhsr nfsk, w khsr@ ldht khTyy'@.. `ly lmr 'n ykwn qdran `ly ltsll ly dkhl nfsh tmman mthl lslHf@. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 0455638 | The dream of death is only the dark smoke Under which the fires of life are burning. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| b4c6826 | Jis tavim geresis, ismoks tave mintinai. | love | Hermann Hesse | |
| 1323b6f | Ne, ne vienas zmogus ilgai negaletu pakelti tokio liepsningo gyvenimo. <...> Niekas negaletu taip ilgai diena nakti deginti visus savo ziburius, eikvoti visus savo vulkanus, niekas neistengtu taip ilgai diena nakti stoveti liepsnose, kasdien daug valandu su ikaitusia galva mastyti, nuolatos megaudamasis, nuolatos kurdamas, nuolatos sviesus, su budriais jausmais ir nervais nelyginant pilis, uz kurios langu kasdien skamba muzika, o naktimis t.. | life lithuanian | Hermann Hesse | |
| dbdabbb | This here," he said playing with it, "is a stone, and will, after a certain time, perhaps turn into soil, and will turn from soil into a plant or animal or human being. In the past, I would have said: This stone is just a stone, it is worthless, it belongs to the world of the Maja; but because it might be able to become also a human being and a spirit in the cycle of transformations, therefore I also grant it importance. Thus, I would perha.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 9d368c9 | klm zd m ntTlbh mn 'nfsn 'w klm zd m ytTlbh wjbn mn zdt Drwr@ ltjy'n ly lt'ml mSdr qw@ w ly ltwfq byn lfkr w lrwH, klm zd tmlk mhm@ mn lmhmt ln, f'thrtn w smt bn tr@, w tr@ 't`btn w'rhqtn , 'SbH hmln lmSdr lqw@ hdh 'ysr `lyn w 'shl Hdwth ln, blZbT km yHdth ln `ndm nnhmk fy `ml fkry nhmk shdyd w yshl `lyn hml ljsm w ltGDy `n l`ny@ bh. w `Zm lrjl knw m `ly m`rf@ blt'ml w mmrsth, 'w knw fy lTryq lmwSl ly lt'ml dwn `lm mnhm, fmn lm ttH lh wHd@ .. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 1b26abc | wlkny lst l mlHan w`mly hw 'n '`br blns hdh lnhr, wqd `brt balf lns, wlm ykn nhry blnsb@ lyhm Gyr `qb@ fy Tryq rHlthm. knw ysfrwn mn 'jl lml 'w l`ml, 'w mn 'jl Hflt lzff, 'w rHlt lHj, wkn lnhr y`trD Tryqhm dy'man. " | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 1eea1f5 | nk l tkhf l Hyn l tkwn mnsjman m` nfsk. w lns khy'fwn l'nh lm ysbq lhm 'n knw msyTryn `l~ 'nfshm. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 4844949 | wqft `nd zwy@ lshr` w 'SGyt. mn lbrt kn mrH lshbb lmmnhj lmkrwr ySHb fy llyl. twSl kdhb fy kl mkn, w fy kl mkn hdr lmsy'wly@ lmSyr, w hrwb l~ lqTy` bHthan `n ldf | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 67b6bc2 | Trebao bi se ponositi bolom - svaki bol nas podseca na nas visoki polozaj'. Divno! Osamdeset godina pre Nicea! Ali to nije izreka na koju sam mislio - cekajte, evo je. Dakle: 'Vecina ljudi nece da pliva pre neo sto nauci'. Zar to nije saljivo? Razume se da nece da plivaju! Ta rodjeni su za tle, a ne za vodu. I, razume se, nece ni da misle; stvoreni su da zive, a ne da misle! Da, onaj koji misli, kome je glavna stvar da misli, moze da dotera.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| e581f04 | sh`rt 'nh lys mjdyan l`tmd `l~ shrfh. lqd j mn l`lm lakhr. w lwshyh lyst jrymh blnsbh lh. 'Hsst bdhlk bdqh. flns fy l`lm lakhr lysw mthln fy hdhh l'mwr | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 839fea8 | They had been talking about astrology, a forbidden science that was not pursued in the cloister. Narcissus had said that astrology was an attempt to arrange and order the many different types of human beings according to their natures and destinies. At this point Goldmund had objected: "You're forever talking of differences - I've finally recognised a pet theory of yours. When you speak of the great difference that is supposed to exist betw.. | individuality science difference | Hermann Hesse | |
| 8290956 | Beside the brook Toward the willows, During these days So many yellow flowers have opened Their eyes into gold. I have long since lost my innocence, yet a memory Touches my depth, the golden hours of morning, and gazes Brilliantly upon me out of the eyes of flowers. I was going to pick flowers; Now I leave them all standing And walk home, an old man. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| f05e46c | Siddhartha considered his circumstances. Thinking did not come easily to him. He didn't really feel like it, but he forced himself. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 94186dc | It was clear to the one speaking that each of his words was being allowed to enter into his listener, who sat there quietly, openly, waiting' not a single word was disregarded or met with impatience; Vasudeva attached neither praise nor blame to what he heard but merely listened. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| d73dedf | Here in this endless and gleaming wilderness I was removed farther than ever from the world of men -- And I never saw so close and so clearly The image in the mirror of my own soul. | self | Hermann Hesse | |
| 1fafa12 | Cini mi se da je ljubav od svega najvaznija. Prozreti svet, protumaciti ga i prezreti, to je stvar velikih mislilaca. Ali, meni je jedino stalo do toga da volim svet, da ga ne prezirem, da ne mrzim ni svet ni sebe, da na nj, na sebe i na sva bica mogu da gledam sa ljubavlju i sa divljenjem, i sa strahopostovanjem. | ljubav mililac strahopoštovanje svijet važnost | Hermann Hesse | |
| 9d99ed6 | Wir reden zuviel", sagte er mit ungewohntem Ernst. "Das kluge Reden hat gar keinen Wert, gar keinen. Man kommt nur von sich selber weg. Von sich selber wegkommen ist Sunde. Man muss sich in sich selber vollig kriechen konnen wie eine Schildkrote." | Hermann Hesse | ||
| f7555c7 | It was at a concert of lovely old music. After two or three notes of the piano the door was opened of a sudden to the other world. I sped through heaven and saw God at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defences and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart. It did not last very long, a quarter of an hour perhaps; but it returned to me in a dream at night, and since, through al.. | music | Hermann Hesse |