2026 Reading Challenge

Elif > Elif's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 35
« previous 1
sort by

    like
  • #1
    John Williams
    “To read without joy is stupid.”
    ― John Williams
    197 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: hell, solipsism
    633 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humour, telekinetics
    10122 likes

    • like
  • #4
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
    165218 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Haruki Murakami
    “For both of us, it had simply been too enormous an experience. We shared it by not talking about it. Does this make any sense?”
    ― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
    444 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
    151399 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
    71691 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
    35272 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Haruki Murakami
    “In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
    552 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
    51605 likes

    • like
  • #11
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
    29736 likes

    • like
  • #12
    I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!
    “I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: humor, mankind, people
    18550 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Bill Watterson
    “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
    21175 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
    39862 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
    “Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
    ― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
    tags: inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, women
    12561 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
    tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
    19852 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
    19425 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
    23098 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Pat Conroy
    “You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
    ― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
    8313 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Abraham Lincoln
    “My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, books
    3543 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Daniel Pennac
    “Reader's Bill of Rights

    1. The right to not read

    2. The right to skip pages

    3. The right to not finish

    4. The right to reread

    5. The right to read anything

    6. The right to escapism

    7. The right to read anywhere

    8. The right to browse

    9. The right to read out loud

    10. The right to not defend your tastes”
    ― Daniel Pennac
    tags: books, reading, rights
    6984 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Richard Llewellyn
    “O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.”
    ― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
    1070 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Anna Quindlen
    “I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”
    ― Anna Quindlen
    tags: books, children
    1325 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Anna Quindlen
    “In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
    tags: books, reading, travel
    962 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Edward Albee
    “What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”
    ― Edward Albee
    1368 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
    32148 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
    tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading
    6417 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Ken Robinson
    “If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.”
    ― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
    tags: creativity, failure, original
    742 likes

    • like
  • #29
    Gündüz Vassaf
    “Birbirimizi anlayamayacağımız korkusuyla, sözcükleri gereğinden çok fazla kullanıyoruz.Konuşmamanın , iletişim kurmayı reddetme anlamına çekilmesinden , kabalık olarak görülmesinden korkuyoruz.Ayrıca çok fazla konuşuyoruz.Sessizlik bizi ürkütüyor.Sessizliği denetleyemiyoruz.Oysa sessizlikte, sezinlediğimiz ama tanımadığımız dürtülerin, özgürlüğün ve gelişigüzelliğin son noktası saklıdır.”
    ― Gündüz Vassaf
    tags: cehenneme-Övgü
    17 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Ivan Turgenev
    “We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
    ― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
    1703 likes



Rss
« previous 1
All Quotes



Tags From Elif’s Quotes

hell
solipsism
humour
telekinetics
attributed-no-source
best
life
love
misattributed-marilyn-monroe
mistakes
out-of-control
truth
worst
books
humor
intelligence
self-deprecation
obvious
simile
aliteracy
classic
library
mankind
people
calvin-and-hobbes
poetry
inspirational
misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
women
misattributed-mark-twain
philosophy
theology
good
writing
reading
television
rights
children
travel
deadlines
work
censorship
illiteracy
creativity
failure
original
cehenneme-Övgü