Quotes - Sajra Jahic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Showing 1-30 of 40

#1

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

20077 likes

#2

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom

8672 likes

#3

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

tags: life, story

3288 likes

#4

“My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

tags: happiness, lasting, pleasure, temporary

1271 likes

#5

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational

15967 likes

#6

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

11901 likes

#7

“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

11626 likes

#8

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: wisdom

8846 likes

#9

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

5665 likes

#10

“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

tags: education, marriage

2720 likes

#11

“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

2516 likes

#12

“Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

tags: anticipation

1947 likes

#13

“A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

1628 likes

#14

“Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

tags: alone, man-s-heart, men, sad, violence, women

1413 likes

#15

“she is the noor of my eyes and the sultan of my heart.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

821 likes

#16

“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― John Williams, Stoner

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#17

“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”
― John Williams, Stoner

tags: growth, love

839 likes

#18

“You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do.”
― John Williams, Stoner

tags: archer-sloane, food-for-thought, life-lessons, self-acceptance, self-knowledge

425 likes

#19

“A war doesn’t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can never be brought back. And if a people goes through enough wars, pretty soon all that’s left is the brute, the creature that we—you and I and others like us—have brought up from the slime.”
― John Williams, Stoner

tags: war

198 likes

#20

“He had, in odd ways, given it to every moment of his life, and had perhaps given it most fully when he was unaware of his giving. It was a passion neither of the mind nor of the flesh; rather, it was a force that comprehended them both, as if they were but the matter of love, its specific substance. To a woman or to a poem, it said simply: Look! I am alive.”
― John Williams, Stoner

94 likes

#21

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

tags: philosophy

8297 likes

#22

“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
― William Shakespeare

5099 likes

#23

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

1438 likes

#24

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm

7588 likes

#25

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical

3797 likes

#26

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: inspirational

1242 likes

#27

“Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

440 likes

#28

“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

tags: love

1595 likes

#29

“Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

tags: heart, solitude, sorrow

629 likes

#30

“The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

tags: beauty, reality

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