Ciri > Ciri's Quotes

“One emotional crisis at a time”
― MsKingBean89, All the Young Dudes

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“To love people as they are is impossible. And yet one must. And therefore do good to them, clenching your feelings, holding your nose, and shutting your eyes (this last is necessary). Endure evil from them, not getting angry with them if possible, ‘remembering that you, too, are a human being’.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Adolescent

“I was especially happy when, going to bed and covering myself with a blanket, I began, alone now, in the most complete solitude, with no people moving around and not a single sound from them, to re-create life in a different key.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Adolescent

“A fool is always pleased with what he says, and, besides, he always says more than he needs to.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Adolescent

“Reality alone justifies everything.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Adolescent

“How can you tell a man there’s nothing to do? I can’t imagine a situation in which there could ever be nothing to do! Do it for mankind and don’t worry about the rest. There’s so much to do that a lifetime won’t be enough, if you look around attentively.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Adolescent

“Is it not I myself who am to blame, instead of them?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Adolescent

“I am now reading overwhat I have just written, and I see that I am much cleverer than what I have written.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Adolescent

“A day has ended catastrophically, but there's still the night.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Adolescent

“...to be able to judge the others, a man needs to gain himself the right to judge by suffering.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Adolescent

“Where there is need, there's, also, a market.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Adolescent

“That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Can’t good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“The world won't come to me...so I must go to it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“...it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn't understand. That first glimpse of pure otherness, in whose presence you bloom out and out and out.

A self one does not want. A heart one cannot help.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“...my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“He was a planet without an atmosphere.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“There's no 'rational grounds' for anything I care about.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“We can’t choose what we want and don’t want and that’s the hard lonely truth. Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us. We can’t escape who we are.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“...and yet isn't it always the inappropriate thing, the thing that doesn't quite work, that's oddly the dearest?”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“And who knows-but maybe that's what's waiting for us at the end of the journey, a majesty unimaginable until the very moment we find ourselves walking through the doors of it, what we find ourselves gazing at in astonishment when God finally takes His hands off our eyes and says: Look!”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch