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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c0dcca5 | the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 51e58c4 | These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| c4ba64e | Though men in their hundreds of thousands had tried their hardest to disfigure that little corner of the earth where they had crowded themselves together, paving the ground with stones so that nothing could grow, weeding out every blade of vegetation, filling the air with the fumes of coal and gas, cutting down trees and driving away every beast and every bird -- spring, however, was still spring, even in the town. The sun shone warm, the g.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 55f97b1 | Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 9b1c9f4 | Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroes have died is not sacred?' If you were run over by a railroad train your death wouldn't sanctify the railroad company, would it?' asked Rhett and his voice sounded as if he were humbly seeking information. | war | Margaret Mitchell | |
| 44c2b93 | It's hard to think about all the bad when she reminds me of all that's good. | Beth Revis | ||
| d9b7184 | For this is the thing the priests do not know, with their One God and One Truth; that there is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you, and whether, at the end, you arrive at the Holy Isle of Eternity or among the priests with their bells and their death and their Satan and hell and damnation...but perh.. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 1f74416 | My mother and father were always pushing me away from secondhand answers--even the answers they themselves believed. I don't know that I have ever found any satisfactory answers of my own. But every time I ask it, the question is refined. That is the best of what the old heads meant when they spoke of being "politically conscious"--as much a series of actions as a state of being, a constant questioning, questioning as ritual, questioning as.. | meaning life certainty questioning questions searching | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 6dbbd5c | She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what's it to live. | inspirational | Markus Zusak | |
| 35d95a0 | My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child-wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry. | writing | Virginia Woolf | |
| 72c0902 | A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one | Virginia Woolf | ||
| bacb7f4 | If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as points out [in his ], she was locked up, beaten and flung about the room. | stereotypes woman equality fiction truth clichés greatness dignity importance hypocrisy respect gender | Virginia Woolf | |
| 886bcfd | I tried. Can't do it. Brain's empty. | Sharon Creech | ||
| 52efff7 | y`tqd lmr 'n tw'm lrwH hw lshkhS l'nsb lh , whdh myrydh ljmy` . wlkn tw'm lrwH lHqyqy lys sw~ mrah , nh lshkhS ldhy yryk kl my`yqk , lshkhS ldhy ylft ntbhk l~ nfsk lky tGyry Hytk , tw'm lrwH lHqyqy hw 'hm shkhS tltqyn bh `l~ l'rjH , lnh ymzq jdrnk wyhzk bqwh lky tstfyqy | love soulmate self novel | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| bfbcc03 | In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most vivid representation of your own personality. Your spouse becomes the most gleaming possible mirror through which your emotional individualism is reflected back to the world. There is no choice more intensely personal after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5abe618 | There is a Dutch word, uitwaaien, "to walk against the wind for pleasure." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| bbdc040 | There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable. | philosophy schopenhauer | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| 4f41c64 | I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit. | illusion life truth | Irvin D. Yalom | |
| fb8167c | To build children you must first be built yourself. Otherwise, you'll seek children out of animal needs, or loneliness, or to patch the holes in yourself. Your task as a parent is to produce not another self, another Josef, but something higher. It's to produce a creator. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 29a69fa | A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves, when we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 4e60dae | I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 426a46f | Better to have flamed in the darkness, to have inspired others, to have lived, than to have sat in the darkness, cursing the people who borrowed, but did not return, your candle. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| c5b56c9 | I wondered, as I wondered so often when I was that age, who I was, and what exactly was looking at the face in the mirror. If the face I was looking at wasn't me, and I knew it wasn't, because I would still be me whatever happened to my face, then what was me? And what was watching? | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 50775e6 | Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is? | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 5ce8609 | I mean, I really do think that love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. | life love wise-last-chapter fairness | William Goldman | |
| 31325d9 | I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag -- it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I said, 'Thanks for the card.' Her smile put the sunflower to shame. She walked off. | love stargirl spinelli | Jerry Spinelli | |
| 9b503a5 | But a man who has lived by truth--and you have believed in what he has lived--he does not leave you merely wary when he fails you, he leaves you with nothing. I think that is why I'm nearly out of my mind. | Harper Lee | ||
| 976b9b7 | The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of physics, everything else is opinion. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| c103b04 | Again and again across the centuries, cosmic discoveries have demoted our self-image. Earth was once assumed to be astronomically unique, until astronomers learned that Earth is just another planet orbiting the Sun. Then we presumed the Sun was unique, until we learned that the countless stars of the night sky are suns themselves. Then we presumed our galaxy, the Milky Way, was the entire known universe, until we established that the countl.. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| a3a68d3 | I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another. | Glen Cook | ||
| 984de1e | The mind-blowing, ridiculous sex which was the stuff of both poetry and porn - so unlike anything else I had ever experienced before. | sex lovers | Emily Giffin | |
| 2451cce | When two people were in love you had to leave them to it. Especially when you weren't in love and wished that you were. That could embarrass. That could hurt. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| bf239b1 | Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 15a7bd9 | Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing. | David Almond | ||
| dcd8802 | We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| bd01480 | Behold your future, Cavendish the Younger. You will not apply for membership, but the tribe of the elderly will claim you. Your present will not keep pace with the world's. This slippage will stretch your skin, sag your skeleton, erode your hair and memory, make your skin turn opaque so your twitching organs and blue-cheese veins will be semivisible. You will venture out only in daylight, avoiding weekends and school holidays. Language, too.. | David Mitchell | ||
| 859696d | Un libro leido a medias es una aventura amorosa incompleta. | spanish reading books love leer libro libros book español lectura | David Mitchell | |
| f79cf41 | But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| bbd5c66 | Then no matter where you are, in a crowded restaurant or on some desolate street or even in the comforts of your own home, you'll watch yourself dismantle every assurance you ever lived by. You'll stand aside as a great complexity intrudes, tearing apart, piece by piece, all your carefully conceived denials, whether deliberate or unconscious. And for better or worse you'll turn, unable to resist, though try to resist you still will, fightin.. | scary horror | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 3cac241 | Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say. | writing writers | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 7164e66 | Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign. | equilibrium metaphysics harmony mathematics physics | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 58cebd8 | Necessity breeds solution. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 1101287 | Well, thought Winnie, crossing her arms on the windowsill, she different. Things had happened to her that were hers alone, and had nothing to do with them. It was the first time. And no amount of telling about it could help them understand or share what she felt. It was satisfying and lonely, both at once. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 71047e5 | Were we incapable of empathy - of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own - then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent. | suffering reason philosophy | Peter Singer |