Amber > Amber's Quotes

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
― JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
― Maya Angelou

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

“Everything was so quiet, as if the silence was listening.”
― Anna Kavan

“You mustn't be so afraid of life - it's all we've got. Don't let it hurt you so much.”
― Anna Kavan

“My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind.”
― Anna Kavan, Ice

“I know I've got a death wish. I've never enjoyed my life, I've never liked people. I love the mountains because they are the negation of life, indestructible, inhuman, untouchable, indifferent, as I want to be.”
― Anna Kavan, Julia and the Bazooka and Other Stories

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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

“We need hope, or else we cannot endure.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“It was easier to isolate herself than to explain to everyone that she was having a difficult time coming to terms with her new life and shape. The world simply refused to accept the new her, and that made it difficult for her to accept herself”
― Hend Al Qassemi, The Black Book of Arabia

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

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

“Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“And I’m platonically in love with you.”
“That was literally the boy-girl version of ‘no homo’, but I appreciate the sentiment.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“But books–they’re different. When you watch a film, you’re sort of an outsider looking in. With a book–you’re right there. You are inside. You are the main character.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“I don’t do anything with my life except romanticise and decay with indecision”
― Allen Ginsberg

“You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“The desire of the moth for the star”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Words were different when they lived inside of you.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe