D > D's Quotes

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome.”
― Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes

“Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

“The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.”
― Paula Fox

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

“The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”
― Noah Webster

“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
― Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon

“I am not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King