Mie > Mie's Quotes

“It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing.”
― Knut Hamsun, Hunger

“Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount to anything—about everything I own in the world.”
― Knut Hamsun, Hunger

“I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by all.”
― Knut Hamsun, Hunger

“I like revisiting, at certain times, spots where I was once happy; I like to shape the present in the image of the irretrievable past.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“We are asleep until we fall in Love!”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget...”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“To get rid of an enemy one must love him. ”
― Leo Tolstoy

“He went down trying not to look long at her, as though she were the sun, but he saw her, as one sees the sun, without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato

“Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”
― Plato

“I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.”
― Plato

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“This moment will just be another story someday.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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

“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore