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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 606e499 | That's the worst...or the best...of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable...and succeeding...even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic. | life | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 1ad395b | Men are made for happiness, and he who is completely happy has the right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth. | religion | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| db24245 | The whole question here is: am I a monster, or a victim myself? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c8ac0b8 | A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder. | ladder fall pity | Eoin Colfer | |
| de205d8 | Waitress: "And to drink?" Artemis: "Spring water. Irish, if you have it. And no ice, please. As your ice is no doubt made from tap water, which rather defeats the purpose of spring water." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| d45402d | Scepticism is the first step towards truth. | truth skepticism | Denis Diderot | |
| 8f5a886 | But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest. | work dishonest leo-tolstoy hierarchy labor honest capitalism | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 21824cc | God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling... | suicide forgiveness | Leo Tolstoy | |
| a628b74 | Remember then: there is only one time that is important-- Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary man is he with whom you are, for no man knows whether he will ever have dealings with any one else: and the most important affair is, to do him good, because for that purpose alone was man sent into this life! | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 2ab55a0 | We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 34384d8 | Although we know the end of the maze holds death (and it is something I have not always known--not long ago the adolescent in me thought death could happen only to other people), I see now that the path I choose through that maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one of many ways--and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 1de007c | Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition. | religious principles | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 9c2072f | It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry. | Nikolai Gogol | ||
| bb981fe | The truth is that the new conception of raunch culture as a path to liberation rather than oppression is a convenient (and lucrative) fantasy with nothing to back it up. Or, as Susan Brownmiller put it when I asked her what she made of all this, "You think you're being brave, you think you're being sexy, you think you're transcending feminism. But that's bullshit." -- | Ariel Levy | ||
| c899a90 | I quit thinking. | Beth Revis | ||
| e52b4f4 | And I know without being told that she killed herself. And I totally understand why. | Beth Revis | ||
| 725a8c6 | Belgarath turned back to Senji. "All right," he said. "The Sardion came to Zamad. How?" "It's said to have fallen out of the sky." "They always do," Beldin said. "Someday I'd like to see something rise up out of the earth -just for the sake of variety." | David Eddings | ||
| 284e735 | Mistakes, mistakes, it's all I seem capable of at times. | Markus Zusak | ||
| e42d0cf | He lay with yellow hair and closed eyes, and the book thief ran toward him and fell down. She dropped the black book. "Rudy," she sobbed, "wake up...." She grabbed him by his shirt and gave him just the slightest disbelieving shake. "Wake up, Rudy," and now, as the sky went on heating and showering ash, Liesel was holding Rudy Steiner's shirt by the front. "Rudy, please." THe tears grappled with her face. "Rudy, please, wake up, Goddamn it,.. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 0d00a68 | He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became drowsy through indifference to the vibrations of a love whose subtleties he could no longer distinguish. | sadness love indifference crying | Gustave Flaubert | |
| 30d37ae | What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love. | simple | Gustave Flaubert | |
| 4897274 | Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living. | soul-mate | George Eliot | |
| 253f48e | However, the majority of women are neither harlots nor courtesans; nor do they sit clasping pug dogs to dusty velvet all through the summer afternoon. But what do they do then? and there came to my mind's eye one of those long streets somewhere south of the river whose infinite rows are innumerably populated. With the eye of the imagination I saw a very ancient lady crossing the street on the arm of a middle-aged woman, her daughter, perhap.. | women writing | Virginia Woolf | |
| cb5e2c1 | The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much. | egotism worry thinking | Virginia Woolf | |
| 076df25 | Quiet descended on her, calm, content, as her needle, drawing the silk smoothly to its gentle pause, collected the green folds together and attached them, very lightly, to the belt. So on a summer's day waves collect, overbalance, and fall; collect and fall; and the whole world seems to be saying "that is all" more and more ponderously, until even the heart in the body which lies in the sun on the beach says too, That is all. Fear no more, .. | inspirational | Virginia Woolf | |
| bdcabc0 | What if I told you I'm incapable of tolerating my own heart? | Virginia Woolf | ||
| b1f19a6 | Happy the writer who, passing by characters that are boring, disgusting, shocking in their mournful reality, approaches characters that manifest the lofty dignity of man, who from the great pool of daily whirling images has chosen only the rare exceptions, who has never once betrayed the exalted turning of his lyre, nor descended from his height to his poor, insignificant brethren, and, without touching the ground, has given the whole of hi.. | Nikolai Gogol | ||
| be029a1 | If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now and then, a stance. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| 9927e33 | My brain was all right back then; it didn't get stuck in ruts. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 9568e05 | Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people. | freedom obstacle misery | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 10050f5 | God waited me out. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 37c3489 | A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people. | poets funny philosophy schopenhauer misanthropy | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| 26d6455 | The scenes in our life resemble pictures in a rough mosaic; they are ineffective from close up, and have to be viewed from a distance if they are to seem beautiful. That is why to attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and why, though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and.. | Arthur Schopenhauer | ||
| f156ae1 | There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what I was writing and I meant the opposite; reading them again I feel completely lost...I was lying to myself. How I lied to myself! | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 1425300 | being brave didn't mean you weren't scared. Being brave meant you were scared, really scared, badly scared, and you did the right thing anyway. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 0422ec7 | And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 134ec78 | Whatever happened to me in my life, happened to me as a writer of plays. I'd fall in love, or fall in lust. And at the height of my passion, I would think, 'So is how it feels,' and I would tie it up in pretty words. I my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I my hurt, and even it, a little, for now I could write a death, a loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my roo.. | writing writers | Neil Gaiman | |
| b54cc2e | Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear. | life girls | Neil Gaiman | |
| 22c255d | There are stories that are true, in which each individual's tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we have heard it before, and we cannot allow ourselves to feel it to deeply. We build a shell around it like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to cope. This is how we walk and talk and function, day in, day out, immune to others' pain and loss. If it were to.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 63ba893 | That was the thing about Loki. You resented him even when you were at your most grateful, and you were grateful to him even when you hated him the most. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 34ba948 | Spoons are excellent. Sort of like forks, only not as stabby. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 1607266 | Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an island. | mourning pain sharing | Neil Gaiman | |
| 7561618 | You wouldn't die in here, nothing ever dies in here, but if you stayed here for too long, after a while just a little of you would exist everywhere, all spread out. And that's not a good thing. Never enough of you all together in one place, so t here wouldn't be anything left that would think of itself as an 'I.' No point of view any longer, because you'd be an infinite sequence of views and of points... | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 9caff05 | The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. To women he is half vivisector, half vampire. He gets into intimate relations with them to study them, to strip the mask of convention from them, to surprise their inmost secrets, knowing that they have the power to rouse his deepest creative energies, to rescue him from his cold reason, .. | love hubris | George Bernard Shaw |