John > John's Quotes

“That is the natural way of women...to scorn the one that loves them, and love the one that hates them.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“I shall show you my soul. You shall see the thing that you fancy only God can see.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It's already too late, in any case. The sexual failure you've known since your adolescence, Raphaël, the frustration that has followed you since the age of thirteen, will leave their indelible mark. Even supposing that you might have women in the future - which in all frankness I doubt - this will not be enough; nothing will ever be enough. You will always be an orphan to those adolescent loves you never knew.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“From the very first nothing is more foreign, more repugnant, or more hostile to woman than truth—her great art is false-hood, her chief concern is appearance and beauty.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”
― Werner Heisenberg

“They is four things that can destroy the earth, he said. Women, whiskey, money, and
niggers.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West