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#1

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: art, painting

1947 likes

#2

“I am haunted by humans.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

5525 likes

#3

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde

6058 likes

#4

“What of Art?
-It is a malady.
--Love?
-An Illusion.
--Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
--You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
--What are you?
-To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray

2959 likes

#5

“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

5917 likes

#6

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander

21868 likes

#7

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: faith

8691 likes

#8

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: fantasy, literature, philosophy

5683 likes

#9

“Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

4312 likes

#10

“For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: gandalf, prophecy, unanticipated

838 likes

#11

“Deep roots are not reached by the frost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: inner-strength

216 likes

#12

“It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.”
― J.R.R Tolkien

tags: bilbo, fellowship-of-the-ring, j-r-r-tolkien, the-lord-of-the-rings, the-shire

305 likes

#13

“To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: blindness, judgment, truth

61 likes

#14

“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

1291 likes

#15

“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

tags: death, grief, loss

762 likes

#16

“Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

69 likes

#17

“Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

tags: choice, life, pain, pleasure

2180 likes

#18

“Strange, isn’t it? To love a book. When the words on the pages become so precious that they feel like part of your own history because they are. It’s nice to finally have someone read stories I know so intimately.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

1009 likes

#19

“We are all stardust and stories.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

923 likes

#20

“Not all stories speak to all listeners, but all listeners can find a story that does, somewhere, sometime. In one form or another.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

678 likes

#21

“A boy at the beginning of a story has no way of knowing that the story has begun.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

351 likes

#22

“What do you want to be when you grow up?"

"Kind," said the boy.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

394 likes

#23

“The greatest illusion," said the mole, "is that life should be perfect.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

tags: perfection

202 likes

#24

“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

tags: death, humor

3470 likes

#25

“As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.
They kill us for their sport.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

tags: classic, insignificance

320 likes

#26

“Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

286 likes

#27

“Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust
Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust”
― John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

tags: beautiful, favourite-quote, tragedy

39 likes

#28

“No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

5407 likes

#29

“It's not natural for women to fight."
"It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

4616 likes

#30

“No Mourners.
No Funerals.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

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