Quotes by Filipino Authors

I'll remember your apocalypse if you'll remember mineIt will be a holiday of the senses
Eric Gamalinda
A blank page is no empty space. It is brimming with potential... It is a masterpiece in waiting -- yours.
A.A. Patawaran
Every creature is a living instruction that runs the algorithm of nature.
Joey Lawsin
People may ask "why do you laugh at simple things?" Tell them that why don't you? Life is too short to make it so miserable.
Kenneth de Guzman
Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.
Carlos P. Romulo
Who says you’ll get hurt again?”I pouted. “Have you met you?” “Right.
Kate Evangelista
Memory is all that matters in the end
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Boys. Drau or mortal, they were all the same.
Melissa de la Cruz
You know you’re not perfect and that’s good. Perfect is boring. You have a lot to offer. A lot more to experience and so many things to learn. There are more pages to fill up so act your age.
Diana Rose Morcilla
You will always be special to someone. Unless you grow so old, everyone you knew went ahead
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Boredom, that traitorous devil that posseses us to do things sometimes useless, and often stupid.
Apol Lejano-Massebieau
You are healed." Allegra nodded. "You are no longer a Silver Blood." She paused. "But you are no longer a vampire either."Bliss started. No longer a vampire-but what did that mean? Did it mean she was just human?
Melissa de la Cruz
I'm proud of you, Bliss," he said."Michael's sword released the souls that were trapped in your blood. You freed them. You freed me.""But now I'm never going to see you again, am I?" she asked.Dylan smiled. "It's unlikely. But I never say never.'"I wish you wouldn't go. I'll miss you so much," Bliss said."I'll miss you too."Dylan put his hand up, and so did Bliss. But this time, instead of touching air, she felt his warm hand grasping her cold one. She looked at Allegra. Somehow, she knew her mother was making this happen. Dylan leaned down, and she could feel his lips, soft and inviting, gently kissing hers. Then Dylan was gone. But Bliss did not feel anguished. She felt at peace. Dylan was not broken and incomplete anymore. He was whole.
Melissa de la Cruz
‎The stars are like the trees. Each one reminds us that we should still the greed in our heart. Each tree, each star, teaches us the ways of peace.
Alfred A. Yuson
An age that needs security guards is, of course, without security. What do we have in the dull old days? Old man janitors in the schools; watchmen in the factories, and the watchman was usually the turbanned bearded Bombay armed only with a stick, drowsing on a stool by a gate. How his strong odor remembered now seems the very smell of safety!In his place now lurks the man in uniform, armed with pistol and club and submachine gun: the "security" that stands for the insecurity of our times, being the human equivalent of the iron bars at the window, the barbed wire on the wall.
Nick Joaquín
Too much of anything is tiresome. Even the best things.
Edilberto K. Tiempo
Life is like the flappy bird game. There's no pause nor another chance to live after dying and there could be endless obstacles. After all, it is just a matter of patience and perseverance to get a higher score.
Kasey Collin P. Dumdum
The time we were together, we were the best we can be for each other.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Sometimes, the best way of solving a problem is by letting it unsolved.
Joe Mari Fadrigalan
The most difficult lesson is not being bitter—that balancing you need to do so you don't become bitter, even as you cease being gullible.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Let her remain where she is. A constellation away.
Eric Gamalinda
I lived for those moments when we were together, those few times in my life that I actually felt alive.
Melissa de la Cruz
I wanted life that's comfortable enough for me, my ambitions and love.
Fernando Lachica
I believe when you integrate charity in your craft and not just think of the fame and riches it would entitle you with, you will feel this true sense of fulfillment. Carry on your mission, of where God destined you to be- to use His gifts in good ways and not just for yourself.
Elizabeth E. Castillo
It’s just proper for old people to die. Otherwise, they’d go insane in a world too different from the one they knew.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
You are neither coffee nor tea,you are just the right amount ofwhatever it is I’m trying to find.
Sade Andria Zabala
In my humble opinion, forever is a bitter brew." - Max; Before Ever After ♥
Samantha Sotto
I am done slowing down, giving people their time and space, letting them explore their options.
Marla Miniano
I would have done anything for him. But these days, I don't want to do anything. I don't want to get drunk or go to a wild party or make out with random boys-not that I've ever wanted to. I don't want to watch chick flicks or eat ice cream or get a haircut or buy out half of the mall. I don't want cold, cruel revenge. I don't want to see him suffer when karma catches up with him and kick his ass. I don't even want to talk to him right now, simply because it would be awkward and pathetic and I wouldn't know what to say to him. Yes, there is self-control, preventing me from being stupid and acting like a desperate doofus in the manner most heartbroken people do. But there is also a weary numbness threatening to consume every inch of me: Isn't there a way for me to skip straight to the part where I'm fine again?
Marla Miniano
Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there’s only grey – no bad guys, no good guys. You could be the Cheshire cat, Snow White, a troll or a pastry-making witch whose diet consists only of little kids, but you’ll always be you.
Arnold Arre
CENTER-OF-THE-UNIVERSE, that was me entering the workplace. And I woke up one day soon after that, struggling at the bottom of a vast ocean. But I needed that. Humbling experiences are part of growing - they help shape us and mold our character. Welcome to life.
Yay Padua-Olmedo
THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE WHILE LIES SHALL PUT YOU IN JAIL
Nelson M. Lubao
It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were merely two young people in love and nothing else.
Melissa de la Cruz
Smiling at me ruefully, Luka scratched the back of his head. “Yeah, I guess you can.” He sauntered toward the sliding doors. “I’ll be right outside if you need me. Call if you get dizzy.”“You’ll probably just hear a very loud thump.”He frowned at my joke. “Not funny.”“Luka?” He stopped. “Thank you for keeping an eye on me.”“Just…” He tsked. “Just don’t scare me like that again.
Kate Evangelista
Think about it: If you have saved just enough to have your own house, your own car, a modicum of income to pay for food, clothes, and a few conveniences, and your everyday responsibilities start and end only with yourself… You can afford not to do anything outside of breathing, eating, and sleeping.Time would be an endless, white blanket. Without folds and pleats or sudden rips. Monday would look like Sunday, going sans adrenaline, slow, so slow and so unnoticed. Flowing, flowing, time is flowing in phrases, in sentences, in talk exchanges of people that come as pictures and videos, appearing, disappearing, in the safe, distant walls of Facebook.Dial fast food for a pizza, pasta, a burger or a salad. Cooking is for those with entire families to feed. The sala is well appointed. A day-maid comes to clean. Quietly, quietly she dusts a glass figurine here, the flat TV there. No words, just a ho-hum and then she leaves as silently as she came. Press the shower knob and water comes as rain. A TV remote conjures news and movies and soaps. And always, always, there’s the internet for uncomplaining company.Outside, little boys and girls trudge along barefoot. Their tinny, whiny voices climb up your windowsill asking for food. You see them. They don’t see you. The same way the vote-hungry politicians, the power-mad rich, the hey-did-you-know people from newsrooms, and the perpetually angry activists don’t see you. Safely ensconced in your tower of concrete, you retreat. Uncaring and old./HOW EASY IT IS NOT TO CARE
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
I'm up for it. Whatever it is. As long as it means I'll always be with you.
Melissa de la Cruz
I hate early mornings.But I love waking up with you.
Sade Andria Zabala
It's never about time. It only takes one moment.
Jay E. Tria
The best listeners are often those with the quietest heart.
Marie Sabillo
One's greatest happiness is also his greatest weakness.
Joe Mari Fadrigalan
... it's pointless to think in moral terms when everything is permissible. We have become the people we detest. We have lost the capacity to imagine what is forbidden We have been freed, in other words, from our own hypocrisy.
Eric Gamalinda
Make a real not alibis
Rolando E. Ochea
Im 5 ft 1 ½. That bonus ½ is just as important because every little bit matters
Janna Cachola
Why come back to this empty house, and this Manila with a strange face; the one I never knew? All those lonely islands. They will keep afloat without me.
V.J. Campilan
The calming sea reaches out to me. Inviting me to its pure serenity."-Elizabeth's Quotes (inspired by a Pablo Neruda quote "I need the sea because it teaches me.")
Elizabeth E. Castillo
In the context of physics, 137 is equal to the integer part of the inverse of the fine structure constant ... The fine structure constant α is the key to the physicist’s quest for a Grand Unified Theory ... The number 137 has intrigued numerous prominent theoretical physicists ... All told, we believe that it is much easier, and more motivating, to remember a number that has deep significance in numerous disciplines, ... with the following terse ode to 137:Bethe was mischievous with 137Bohr was intrigued by 137Born was mystified by 137Fermi was frisky with 137Feynman was mesmerized by 137Heisenberg was fascinated by 137Lederman was enchanted by 137Pauli was consumed by 137Turing was matched by 137
Leon O Chua
After a while, she murmurs, "What does it mean... what is it to be American?" The question stuns him. That he doesn't know how to answer stuns him more. Or maybe he doesn't know the answer. Maybe certainty is impossible. We're only as real as what we do and what is done to us in the moment; knowing comes much later, if it comes at all. We're jostled by too many acts that we choose to forget.
Merlinda Bobis
It's easier to run a revolution than a government.
Ferdinand E. Marcos
Fretting over how life ends, or anything else for that matter, is a complete waste of time.
Samantha Sotto
I firmly believe that if you pray long enough, if you wish hard enough, God will grant you at least one wish in your lifetime.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
I am not a person who goes in the side of the many, because I prefer the side of the victor.
Kenneth de Guzman
How long have you been away from the country?" Laruja asked Ibarra."Almost seven years.""Then you have probably forgotten all about it.""Quite the contrary. Even if my country does seem to have forgotten me, I have always thought about it.
José Rizal
Life is not a question of how much happiness we want, it is how happiness uses time to make our wants into need.
Kasey Collin P. Dumdum
Be careful to your skill it might be kill it's makes you ill.
Stephen John Uy
I don't know about forever, but I love you just the same.
Jay E. Tria
Kill the part of you that believes it can't survive without someone else.
Sade Andria Zabala
Regulate your mind. Do not worry excessively about the future. If you have done everything that has to be done, the future will take care of itself.
Choa Kok Sui
The way to overcome fear is simply to do what is right.
Choa Kok Sui
I am aware always that the powers that be are so strong, we can not go headlong to pit our forces, it would be suicidal, so we had that position. Which Lenin himself said that 'it is not only foolish to launch an armed revolution but it is a leftist criminal adventurism when the people are not ready to support it.' The people are not ready, they don't even understand what we are talking about.. . . Yes, even socialism is not yet understood by people, much less communism. And the rich are very afraid of communism because it means confiscation of their wealth and liquidation of their lives.
Luis Taruc
I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land. You who have it to see, welcome it ... and forget not those who have fallen during the night!
José Rizal