Quotes by Writers - Page 187

No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.
Banana Yoshimoto
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Sam Levenson
Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.
Baltasar Gracián
I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.
Orson Welles
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
H.P. Lovecraft
The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.
Alan W. Watts
My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.
Ellen DeGeneres
There's no advantage to hurrying through life." -Shikamaru Nara
Masashi Kishimoto
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Joseph Campbell
But we can't go back. We can only go forward.
Libba Bray
I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.
Fernando Pessoa
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.
Masashi Kishimoto
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Joseph Campbell
No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.
Joseph Campbell
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
Alan W. Watts
If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
Fernando Pessoa
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!
Mark A. Cooper
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
H.P. Lovecraft
The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.
George Saunders
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
Aldous Huxley
How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
François de La Rochefoucauld
I go to seek a Great Perhaps.
François Rabelais
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Nicolas Chamfort
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.Delicious Ambiguity.
Gilda Radner
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
Allen Saunders
Little did I realise how much I would miss those ten minutes, those ten minutes in which I lived an entire lifetime.
Faraaz Kazi
For awhile, I thought that was love.-Gaara
Masashi Kishimoto
And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
Niccolò Machiavelli
It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one.
M.F.K. Fisher
It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself.
Steven Wright
If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.
Frederick Buechner
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
Alan W. Watts
Language is the key to the heart of people.
Ahmed Deedat
She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...
Antoine De Saint Exupery
This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love is the kind of thing that's already happening by the time you notice it, that's how it works, and no matter how old you get, that doesn't change. Except that you can break it up into two entirely distinct types -- love where there's an end in sight and love where there isn't.
Banana Yoshimoto
Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living fucking worthwhile.
Mia Asher
In definitiv, cu cat vei ridica un zid mai inalt in jurul tau cu atat va fi mai bun cel care-l va sari.
Tudor Chirilă
The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.
Faraaz Kazi
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
George Sand
The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.
Dylan Thomas
She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
Voltaire
Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere. In freedom it gives itself unreservedly, abundantly, completely. All the laws on the statutes, all the courts in the universe, cannot tear it from the soil, once love has taken root.
Emma Goldman
I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.
Libba Bray
We all know interspecies romance is weird.
Tim Burton
Soulmate" is an overused term, but a true soul connection is very rare, and very real.
Hilary Duff
On the surface, I was calm: in secret, without really admitting it, I was waiting for something. Her return? How could I have been waiting for that? We all know that we are material creatures, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and not even the power of all our feelings combined can defeat those laws. All we can do is detest them. The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that finis vitae sed non amoris, is a lie, useless and not even funny. So must one be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox...Must I go on living here then, among the objects we both had touched, in the air she had breathed? In the name of what? In the hope of her return? I hoped for nothing. And yet I lived in expectation. Since she had gone, that was all that remained. I did not know what achievements, what mockery, even what tortures still awaited me. I knew nothing, and I persisted in the faith that the time of cruel miracles was not past.
Stanisław Lem
You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it neverRises from the soul, and swaysThe heart of every single hearer,With deepest power, in simple ways.You’ll sit forever, gluing things together,Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps,Blowing on a miserable fire,Made from your heap of dying ash.Let apes and children praise your art,If their admiration’s to your taste,But you’ll never speak from heart to heart,Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe