Famous Quotes

I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong.

~ D.h. Lawrence

I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.I don't want it to win.

~ Jasmine Warga

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

~ Ruth Rendell

God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next.

~ Carrie Underwood

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

~ Harper Lee

I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time......why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsOf her life, and weaves them gratefullyInto a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hallAnd clears it for a different celebration.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

~ Thomas Moore

Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a reminder - when you're making a big deal out of explaining something, when you're searching for the right words - to keep your language as simple and direct as Roman rood. Don't make a big production out of it. Just lay it on the table.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within.

~ Dan Howell

Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.

~ Deborah Moggach

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

~ Jimmy Buffett

They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.

~ Karen White

If you think something is missing in your life, it is probably YOU...

~ Robert Holden

Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can't help but bless them for a good future. Because I can't tell that child, 'Oh, you shouldn't have come into this life.' And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making.

~ Hayao Miyazaki

It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.

~ S.e. Hinton

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad.

~ Marcel Proust

Womanhood is a wonderful thing. In womankind we find the mothers of the race.There is no man so great, nor none sunk so low, but once he lay a helpless, innocent babe in a woman's arms and was dependent on her love and care for his existence. It is woman who rocks the cradle of the world and holds the first affections of mankind. She possesses a power beyond that of a king on his throne....Womanhood stands for all that is pure and clean and noble. She who does not make the world better for having lived in it has failed to be all that a woman should be.

~ Mabel Hale

But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.

~ Sarah Dessen

Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us.

~ Robin S. Sharma

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

~ Jim Butcher

What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.

~ Gautama Buddha

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

The Way is not in the sky, the Way is in the heart.

~ Gautama Buddha

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

~ Sloane Crosley

And now I am here, as alone as I've ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how it's suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out.

~ Gayle Forman

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

~ Fran Lebowitz

Being faithful in the smallest things is the way to gain, maintain, and demonstrate the strength needed to accomplish something great.

~ Alex Harris

Paper is more patient than man.

~ Anne Frank

It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.

~ John Irving

Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.

~ Suzanne Collins

Happiness is a state of mind, a choice, a way of living; it is not something to be achieved, it is something to be experienced.

~ Steve Maraboli

Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.

~ Cecelia Ahern

The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom (or, at least, the illusion of freedom) to get beyond ourselves, whether with telescopes and microscopes and our ever-burgeoning technology, or in states of mind that allow us to travel to other worlds, to rise above our immediate surroundings.We may seek, too, a relaxing of inhibitions that makes it easier to bond with each other, or transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear. We seek a holiday from our inner and outer restrictions, a more intense sense of the here and now, the beauty and value of the world we live in.

~ Oliver Sacks

I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.

~ Holly Black

Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.

~ Gabriel Bá

For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstances have been against me, I was worthy to be something much better than I have been. I admit I have never had a great love or a great friendship; but that is because I never met a man or a woman who were worthy of it; if I have not written any very good books, it is because I had not the leisure to do so; or, if I have had no children to whom I could devote myself it is because I did not find the man I could have lived with. So there remains within me a wide range of abilities, inclinations and potentialities, unused but perfectly viable, which endow me with a worthiness that could never be inferred from the mere history of my actions.” But in reality and for the existentialist, there is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving; there is no genius other than that which is expressed in works of art.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

~ Cormac Mccarthy