Quotes - Eileen (Ireland) Showing 1-30 of 76

#1

“Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly–they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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#2

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

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#3

“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
― H.G. Wells, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman

tags: jealousy, morality

1544 likes

#4

“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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#5

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious, simile

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#6

“Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
"Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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#7

“There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

tags: hope, light

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#8

“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
― Woody Allen

tags: humor, life, sex

6557 likes

#9

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology

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#10

“The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

tags: desire

1490 likes

#11

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

tags: language, new-year, voice, words

4194 likes

#12

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

tags: irony, life, loneliness

6382 likes

#13

“I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”
― Bohumil Hrabal

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#14

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: friendship

7679 likes

#15

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

tags: life, unfairness

3226 likes

#16

“I've always loved high style in low company.”
― Anita Loos

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#17

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
― John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems

tags: philosophy, religion, science

2748 likes

#18

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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#19

“And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.”
― Raymond Carver

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#20

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm

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#21

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

tags: chemistry, relationships

9758 likes

#22

“Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.”
― Walter Kirn, Mission to America

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#23

“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
― Boris Pasternak

tags: life

2859 likes

#24

“It isn't ever delicate to live.”
― Kay Ryan

1015 likes

#25

“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
― Rick Moody

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#26

“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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#27

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

2479 likes

#28

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: friendship, inspirational, pooh, winnie

9025 likes

#29

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

tags: art, good-life, music, poetry, self-improvement

4411 likes

#30

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

tags: poetry

9315 likes

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