Quote your favourite author!!

[weltanschauung]

when i am trying to discover myself
my thoughts seek one another in the regions of new space.
i am up in the moon, dreaming,
while others sit at home.
i partake in planetary gravitation
within the fissures of my mind. (antonin artaud)

[missmeadowsweet]

Here is a little gem I found while perusing through my list of quotes the other day which I hadn't done in quite awhile:

"A woman can never be too fine while she is all in white." ~ Edmund in Mansfield Park by Jane Austen.

Here's another one from one of my favorite books by sci-fi author Sylvia Engdahl: "Why, if nobody believed anything except what they understood, how limited we'd be."

[deguonis]

"How often has the human race been warned to breathe properly!"

[JamesBelvoir]

"Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

[literary lew]

"Need can blossom into all the compensations it requires." Marianne Williamson in Housekeeping.

[Helga]

this may not be his most influential quote but I read it the other day and liked it.

"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace."


Milan Kundera

[Lokasenna]

There are so many days when this sums up my life:

"No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist." - Borges

[Vonny]

There are so many days when this sums up my life:

"No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist." - Borges

I've seen this quote before on the forum, and I don't understand what it means. It puzzles me.

Helga, I understand yours. I love that, I'll pass it on to my brother.

[Delta40]

Jeanette Winterson:

"The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me. God is bigger, like my mother, easier to find, even in the dark. I could be anywhere, and since I can't describe myself I can't ask for help."

[Motherof8]

Here's a quote I like from Charles Dickens' "David Copperfield": "There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability in mind and purpose."

[Cole]

"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget." - Cormac McCarthy (The Road)

[xtianfriborg13]

“Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.
But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.”

― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

[Miles Goetz]

"In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived."
-Knut Hamsun.

[NedSiegel]

“Shut your eyes and see.” -- James Joyce

[cafolini]

History is a nightmare from which I'm trying to wake up. ~ James Joyce