Dada > Dada's Quotes

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
― Frank Zappa

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I've got my faults, but changing my tune isn't one of them.”
― Samuel Beckett

“Nisam od onih naivaca koji jedva cekaju neki buduci dan i raduju se rodendanima i Novim Godinama, naprotiv, meni vec dugo smeta to što vreme prolazi, i mada imam neke svoje trikove kako da ne mislim o tome, postoje stranice u kalendaru kad mi nema gde.
Jesen je, znaci...
Ponovo...”
― Đorđe Balašević, Tri posleratna druga

“Tako obično biva. Oni koje želimo da vidimo ne dolaze u časovima kad na njih mislimo i kad ih najviše očekujemo, a pojavljuju se u nekom trenutku kad smo mislima najdalje od njih. I našoj radosti zbog ponovnog viđenja tada treba malo vremena da se digne s dna, gde je potisnuta, i pojavi na površini.”
― Ivo Andrić, Prokleta avlija

“Nesreća nesrećnih ljudi i jeste u tome što za njih stvari koje su inače zabranjene postanu, za trenutak dostižne i lake, ili bar tako izgledaju, a kada se jednom trajno usele u njihove želje, one se pokažu opet kao ono što jesu: nedostupne i zabranjene, sa svim posledicama koje to ima po one koji za njima ipak posegnu.”
― Ivo Andrić

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them.”
― Debbie Ford

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
― Ayn Rand

“How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”
― Jonathan Franzen

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“S Tugom jednostavno treba umeti... Tuga je kao starica koja prodaje karanfile po kafanama, samo se uporno moraš praviti da je ne primećuješ pa će se kad tad okrenuti i otići, iako ti se u prvi mah čini da će zauvek cvileti kraj stola... I, pazi... Pokloniš li joj samo mrvicu pažnje neće se smiriti dok ti ne uvali čitavu korpu... I onda si gotov... Jer Tuga nikada ne zaboravlja lica galantnih mušterija... I nikada te više neće zaobići.”
― Đorđe Balašević

“You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we're not. We always have the power of our minds…Claim and consciously use your power.”
― Louise L. Hay

“Kad god skočiš,prijatelju,suđeno ti je da padneš.To ti se čini neizbježno.Neminovno.Svaku stanicu tvog tijela pokreće ta univerzalna sila.Tvoje ipak nije da padneš.Tvoje je da poletiš.
Ali padat ćeš ponovno i ponovno.Sve dok ne pomisliš da je tlo koje te vuče tvoj dom,da je tlo sigurno i dobro.
Primjetit ćeš da nisi ptica,da nisi građen da letiš i pomislit ćeš da si stvoren da živiš na tlu.Ali na tlu nikad nećeš biti potpun.
Zato ćeš se,ni ne znajući zašto,svejedno ipak,uvijek dizati i ponovno skakati.Jer svaka stanica u tvom tijelu zna da neće ostvariti svoju svrhu i da neće biti potpuna dok ne poletiš.
Zato si ovdje,prijatelju,i to si oduvijek znao.Zato da ubiješ tog zmaja koji te drži na tlu,i poletiš.”
― Davor Rostuhar, Džungla

“LJUBAV. To nikako ne mogu objasniti. Kako objasniti zašto volim prirodu u svim njenim oblicima? Ne samo sezonski, nego i ljeto i zimu i sunce i kišu i snijeg. Mogu li se dva partnera voljeti ako ne znaju svoje 'ružne strane'? Ako se neka osoba voli samo u njenom dobrom svjetlu, je li ljubav potpuna, je li prava? Je li to uopće ljubav? I tako svi ... Svi vole samo sunčano vrijeme, a kada je ružno zatvaraju se u svoja skloništa. Čovjekov iskustveni raspon temperature je 20°C. Od +10°C do +30°C. Sve više ili manje je neudobno. Pa, jesam li onda ja, koji hodam po kiši bos i uživam, lud? Jesam li lud kad vičem niz vjetar koji je toliko jak da se mogu nasloniti na njega? Kada silazim niz snježnu planinu, proklizavam i padam jer ne vidim prst pred sobom, a smijem se i istovremeno divim njenoj moći i svojoj neustrašivosti - jesam li lud? Vjerojatno jesam, ali ja samo igram iskreno, uživam u igri i takve karte dobivam.”
― Davor Rostuhar, Samo nek' se kreće!

“In the end, perfection is just a concept - an impossibility we use to torture ourselves and that contradicts nature.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions

“Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?”
― Richard Bach

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
― Alan Moore