Anna Rossi > Anna's Quotes

“To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.”
― Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Aphorisms

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
― Albert Einstein

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“The unfed mind devours itself.”
― Gore Vidal

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Strong belief in the bright future, always hiding fear of the past”.”
― Alexandar Tomov

“Maybe there is something. Something deep. Something in border of physical and incomprehensible. Something unknowable.
Something completely beyond of all psychological, logical and scientific definitions about human. Something, for which the death is no irreversible limit.Something so strange and absurd.
Something infinite and eternal in Homo Sapiens. Never - dying fire.
The human spirit".”
― Alexandar Tomov

“The only way to accept evil in the world, is first to accept evil in yourself”.”
― Alexandar Tomov

“The old outcast gape the darkness and said: “The lonely man is a fire without fireplace…”.”
― Alexandar Tomov

“„Maybe the happiness is out there...
Like déjà vu. In another time, where all consciousness feel, that the beauty still exists. Where the people have forgotten the pain in the past and death. Where the demons are dead. Where everything is clear. Where you can see the magic of life, like mesmerizing, ghostly mist in the dark of being…”.”
― Alexandar Tomov

“Tomorrow is the end of the world and I am just wandering around and thinking only of happiness….”
― Alexandar Tomov, Unexpected Tales from the Ends of the Earth

“Tis strange - but true; for Truth is always strange,
Stranger than Fiction”
― George Gordon Byron

“My life is just a ghost from distant past”.”
― Alexandar Tomov - junior

“We must love one another or die”
― W.H. Auden

“Look, the Devil has asked me. We’re very old acquaintances, he and I, and I couldn’t turn him down. My estate is enormous, so he asked me for a little space, since hell has become totally overpopulated and there’s no room left whatsoever. He doesn’t have any choice in the matter Himself. Nowadays, everyone wants to go to hell, and the Devil, being as decent as he is, can’t turn anyone down. You understand, don’t you? There’s nobody left in Heaven. Heaven has gone bankrupt,”.”
― A. Tomov - junior, Beyond the Absurd

“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal

“My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
― Dante Alighieri

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“There's always some further action to take.”
― Pierre Boulle

“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”
― Ira Glass

“I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.”
― Herman Melville

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

“These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.”
― Giorgio Vasari

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
― Walter Tevis

“Il Ventesimo secolo ha preteso di racchiudere tutte le battaglie dentro un’unica guerra e le ha dato, a seconda del contesto, dei nomi diversi. La logica è sempre la stessa: estirpare l’individualità dalle persone per confonderle in una massa. Le masse sono alienanti per chi vi vive all’interno e pericolose per chi invece resta fuori, in quanto annientano ogni forma di pensiero originale e hanno la furia cieca di un bulldozer.”
― Sara Zelda Mazzini, I Dissidenti

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild