David > David's Quotes

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.”
― Bob Dylan

“Dum Spiro, spero”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
― Virginia Woolf

“good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
― Plato

“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
― Virginia Woolf

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”
― Franz Kafka

“Laughter is the language of the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
― Pablo Neruda

“Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“Don't criticize what you can't understand.”
― Bob Dylan

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
― Franz Kafka

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
― Joseph Conrad, Chance

“Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
― Plato

“I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.

But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine.”
― Pablo Neruda, If You Forget Me

“Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)”
― René Descartes

“We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.”
― Jorge Luis Borges