After stating that he envies Tourette and Hodgkins, Anselm, from William Gaddis's The Recognitions says:
"I envy Christ, he had a disease named after him."
Of course Anselm may have been quoting someone else for all I know.
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After stating that he envies Tourette and Hodgkins, Anselm, from William Gaddis's The Recognitions says:
"I envy Christ, he had a disease named after him."
Of course Anselm may have been quoting someone else for all I know.
“Too often we under estimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998);
author, professor
I became insane with long intervals of terrible sanity - Edgar Allan Poe
'Caesar:
Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights:
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.'
William Shakespeare, 'Julius Caesar', I.2
“We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.”
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888);
novelist
Behind every silver lining is a dark cloud
-George Carlin
for now:
to be, or not to be. ---Shakespeare
There is some guy called Anon who gets quoted a lot. This is one of my favourites;
Start the day with a smile and get it over with.
"sure, the picture is in my eye, but i am also in the picture."
(lacan, the four fundamental concepts of psycho-analisis, pg63)
"Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult."
-Anne Rice
I love that. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sine_lege
...but I like it because it is bitter, and because it is my heart - Stephen Crane
'When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other' Chinese proverb
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit at a typewriter and bleed. ~Hemingway
"Mother died today, may be yesterday. I cannot be sure."
ALBERT CAMUS in The Outsider
"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that"
~Saul Bellow
:)
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)
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."
"How often has the human race been warned to breathe properly!"
"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."
"Need can blossom into all the compensations it requires." Marianne Williamson in Housekeeping.
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
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lokasenna
Helga, I understand yours. I love that, I'll pass it on to my brother.
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."
Here's a quote I like from Charles Dickens' "David Copperfield": "There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability in mind and purpose."
"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget." - Cormac McCarthy (The Road)
“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
"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.
“Shut your eyes and see.” -- James Joyce
History is a nightmare from which I'm trying to wake up. ~ James Joyce
from which i'm trying to awake
a small difference, but it sounds so much better.
joyce is my favorite, but it's hard to quote him because the context is so important. for example, it's cool when he says "shut your eyes and see" because he's closing his eyes while he muses on the nature of visual and aural experience
There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
Sherlock Holmes quote from "The Naval Treaty" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." quote from "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" by J.K.Rowling
"THE truth is, our clothes make us to a great extent what we are."
Robert Wilson Lynd
The main stories do not have to be tyrannical.
- Richard J. Evans, In Defense of History
“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.” - The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka