"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
— Albert Einstein

"What is hell? I still maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)

"Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering..."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)

"The darker the night, the brighter the stars,
The deeper the grief, the closer is God!"
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)

"The centripetal force on our planet is still fearfully strong, Alyosha. I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves as they open in spring. I love the blue sky, I love some people, whom one loves you know sometimes without knowing why. I love some great deeds done by men, though I’ve long ceased perhaps to have faith in them, yet from old habit one’s heart prizes them. Here they have brought the soup for you, eat it, it will do you good. It’s first-rate soup, they know how to make it here. I want to travel in Europe, Alyosha, I shall set off from here. And yet I know that I am only going to a graveyard, but it’s a most precious graveyard, that’s what it is! Precious are the dead that lie there, every stone over them speaks of such burning life in the past, of such passionate faith in their work, their truth, their struggle and their science, that I know I shall fall on the ground and kiss those stones and weep over them; though I’m convinced in my heart that it’s long been nothing but a graveyard. And I shall not weep from despair, but simply because I shall be happy in my tears, I shall steep my soul in emotion. I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)

""I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love individual people." "
— Dostoevsky

"Walking along the crowded row
He met the one he used to know."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
— Albert Einstein

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
— Albert Einstein

"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."
— Albert Einstein

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning."
— Albert Einstein (Relativity: The Special and the General Theory)

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
— Albert Einstein

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
— Albert Einstein

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
— Albert Einstein

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut"
— Albert Einstein

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories)

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
— Oscar Wilde

"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."
— Oscar Wilde

"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"Who, being loved, is poor?"
— Oscar Wilde

"I can resist anything, except temptation."
— Oscar Wilde

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
— Oscar Wilde

"The heart was made to be broken."
— Oscar Wilde

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. "
— Leo Tolstoy

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
— William Shakespeare

"Time is very slow for those who wait
Very fast for those who are scared
very long for those who lament
Very short for those who celebrate
But for those who love time is eternal"
— William Shakespeare

"Doubt thou the stars are fire. Doubt thou the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar but never doubt I love."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left."
— Marilyn Monroe

"The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream."
— Marilyn Monroe

"[L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries."
— Truman Capote

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."
— Lewis Carroll

"In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die:
Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?"
— Lewis Carroll (Through The Looking Glass)

"You know that place between sleeping and awake, that place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always think of you."
— J.M. Barrie

"Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives,
Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake,
How if our waking life, like that of sleep,
Be all a dream in that eternal life
To which we wake not till we sleep in death"
— Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Life Is a Dream)

"What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit."
— John Updike

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche