Quotes - Charlotte (Saint-germain-en-laye, A8, France) Showing 1-30 of 47

#1

“You were destined for me. Perhaps as a punishment.”
― Dostoievski

tags: punishment

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#2

“La mentira es el único privilegio del hombre sobre todos los animales" - Crimen y Castigo”
― Fiodor M. Dostoievski

tags: fiodor-dostoievski, lies

47 likes

#3

“El dolor y el sufrimiento son siempre inevitables para una gran inteligencia y un corazón profundo. Los hombres realmente grandes, creo, tienen una gran tristeza en la tierra.”
― Fiódor Dostoievski

tags: dolor, inteligencia, tristeza

22 likes

#4

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: intelligence, intelligent-action

2926 likes

#5

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: goals-in-life, purpose-of-life

2920 likes

#6

“This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

1077 likes

#7

“A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

666 likes

#8

“The notion of my future suddenly snapped into focus: it didn't exist yet.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

222 likes

#9

“How did people go on with their lives as though death weren't all around them?”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

tags: death, dread, existential, life

22 likes

#10

“I didn’t believe in heaven, but I did believe in hell.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

22 likes

#11

“I am interested in disgust.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

24 likes

#12

“Marek guessed that Villiam could use his wealth to influence God's will. That was the way things worked, Marek thought. If you didn't have money, you had to be good.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

tags: food-for-thought, religion, satire

19 likes

#13

“Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.

Everything passes.

That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.

Everything passes.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

1532 likes

#14

“This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

tags: love, revolution

939 likes

#15

“Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, that nothing was going to make me happy.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

787 likes

#16

“Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

742 likes

#17

“Living itself is the source of sin.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

367 likes

#18

“The weak fear happiness itself.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

151 likes

#19

“I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

199 likes

#20

“Disqualified as a human being.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

196 likes

#21

“I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with me.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

127 likes

#22

“I yearned for everything long gone.”
― Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

tags: longing, osamu-dazai, sadness

162 likes

#23

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: memories

16590 likes

#24

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: inspirational, love

7447 likes

#25

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: healing, vulnerability

6686 likes

#26

“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

tags: dreaming, dreams

4143 likes

#27

“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

3699 likes

#28

“Everything was beautiful. Not that there was anyone to share it with, anyone to tell. Just the beauty.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

167 likes

#29

“Why does the night have to be so beautiful? As I walk through the night, I remember what Mitsutsuka said to me. “Because at night, only half the world remains.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

101 likes

#30

“I was so scared of being hurt that I'd done nothing. I was so scared of failing, of being hurt, that I choose nothing. I did nothing.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

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