Daria > Daria's Quotes

“I am the twentieth century. I am the ragtime and the tango; sans-serif, clean geometry. I am the virgin's-hair whip and the cunningly detailed shackles of decadent passion. I am every lonely railway station in every capital of Europe. I am the Street, the fanciless buildings of government. the cafe-dansant, the clockwork figure, the jazz saxophone, the tourist-lady's hairpiece, the fairy's rubber breasts, the travelling clock which always tells the wrong time and chimes in different keys. I am the dead palm tree, the Negro's dancing pumps, the dried fountain after tourist season. I am all the appurtenances of night.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.

“Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

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

“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins

“…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

“Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

“Tell me,
what is it you plan to do
with your one
wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“...Gândeşte-te la mine ca la o stea desprinsă din tine şi dusă în întunericul fără fund...”
― Ionel Teodoreanu, Lorelei

“I think; therefore I am.”
― Rene Descartes

“He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see. ”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Ştii să asculţi? Auzi vântul la fereastră? Auzi păsările care pleacă şi se întorc, ducând şi aducând primăvara? Ştii ce-i nostalgia? Priveşti uneori pe fereastră fără să vezi nimic? Sunt pe acolo şi într-acele, fără fiinţă, o apropiere şi o îndepărtare în preajma ta. Gândeşte-te la mine ca la o stea desprinsă din tine şi dusă în întunericul fără fund.”
― Ionel Teodoreanu, Lorelei

“Vorbele sunt făcute pentru minciună. Adevărul tace.”
― Ionel Teodoreanu, Fata din Zlataust

“Nu trebuie să trec prin viaţă fără să las o urmă, o lacrimă, o tresărire din câte am avut pentru tot ce mi s-a părut frumos şi bun...”
― Cella Serghi, Cartea Mironei

“Câte nu se întâmpla în noi si le uitam acolo ca într-un ghiozdan si fiecare crede ca numai el stie lucrul acela pe care îl stiu foarte bine si altii.”
― Gellu Naum, Zenobia

“Para leer en forma interrogativa

Has visto
verdaderamente has visto
la nieve los astros los pasos afelpados de la brisa
Has tocado
de verdad has tocado
el plato el pan la cara de esa mujer que tanto amas
Has vivido
como un golpe en la frente
el instante el jadeo la caída la fuga
Has sabido
con cada poro de la piel sabido
que tus ojos tus manos tu sexo tu blando corazón
había que tirarlos
había que llorarlos
había que inventarlos otra vez.”
― Julio Cortazar

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
― Charles Bukowski

“All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.”
― Franz Kafka

“There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The Tuesday scowls, the Wednesday growls, the Thursday curses, the Friday howls, the Saturday snores, the Sunday yawns, the Monday morns, the Monday morns. The whacks, the moans, the cracks, the groans, the welts, the squeaks, the belts, the shrieks, the pricks, the prayers, the kicks, the tears, the skelps, and the yelps.”
― Samuel Beckett, Watt

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath