Gabriel > Gabriel's Quotes

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it's found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don't care, but they're massively outnumbered by the people who do.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“I didn’t know what the other guy was playing for, maybe just bragging rights. But this was my one chance to become someone who was looked at, not seen, listened to, not heard.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“—El hombre, como buen simio, es animal social y en él priva el amiguismo, el nepotismo, el chanchullo y el comadreo como pauta intrínseca de conducta ética —argumentaba—. Es pura biología.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Hay personas que se recuerdan y otras que se sueñan.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Hay decepciones que honran a quien las inspira.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Pasamos la vida como dos extraños que se han visto todos los días y se saludan por cortesía.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray