Ismaa's favorite quotes

"I am part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move"
— Alfred Lord Tennyson (Tennyson's Poetry)

tags: self

14 people liked it

"If you think you're free, there's no escape possible."
— Ram Dass (Be Here Now)

7 people liked it

"That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies."
— e.e. cummings

5 people liked it

"The present is the only things that has no end."
— Erwin Schradinger

1 person liked it

"I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure."
— George Gordon Byron

tags: logic, mathematics, miracles, mortality, probability

5 people liked it

"In solitude, where we are least alone. "
— George Gordon Byron

tags: lonliness, solitude

15 people liked it

"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep."
— George Gordon Byron

tags: death, sleep

14 people liked it

"Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge."
— George Gordon Byron

7 people liked it

"If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad."
— George Gordon Byron

tags: writing

33 people liked it

"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. "
— George Gordon Byron

15 people liked it

"The heart will break, but broken live on. "
— George Gordon Byron

19 people liked it

"Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?"
— George Gordon Byron

6 people liked it

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

tags: inspirational

790 people liked it

"I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is."
— Vladimir Nabokov

15 people liked it

"Beauty should be edible, or not at all."
— Salvador Dali

tags: beauty

9 people liked it

"One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams."
— Salvador Dali

tags: dreams, reality

17 people liked it

"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."
— Vincent Van Gogh

tags: art, dreams, inspiration

206 people liked it

"I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream."
— Vincent Van Gogh

tags: dreams, stars

92 people liked it

"There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."
— Vincent Van Gogh

tags: art, love

95 people liked it

"It is good to love many things, for therein lies strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done with love is well done."
— Vincent Van Gogh

tags: art, inspiration, love, strength

144 people liked it

"It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful."
— Vincent Van Gogh

tags: art, beauty, books

46 people liked it

"I'm such a nobody."
— Vincent Van Gogh

tags: nobody, understatement

10 people liked it

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