Quotes - Catherine Putsche (Vienna, 09, Austria) Showing 1-30 of 43

#1

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

tags: love

24157 likes

#2

“When you set sail for Ithaca,
wish for the road to be long,
full of adventures, full of knowledge.”
― C.P. Cavafy

1507 likes

#3

“You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

tags: realization

56 likes

#4

“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

tags: knowledge, thievery, treasure

4656 likes

#5

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

3503 likes

#6

“In love, no question is ever preposterous.”
― Andre Brink, Before I Forget

tags: love

1589 likes

#7

“In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.”
― Thurgood Marshall

1440 likes

#8

“Books fall open, you fall in.”
― David T.W. McCord

2101 likes

#9

“To see you naked is to recall the Earth.”
― Federico García Lorca

717 likes

#10

“I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

933 likes

#11

“I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep

tags: anonymity, blending-in

2103 likes

#12

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

tags: art, good-life, music, poetry, self-improvement

4390 likes

#13

“Day followed day, each one a little different from the one before...but the little house stayed just the same.”
― Virginia Lee Burton, The Little House

789 likes

#14

“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
― Harvey Pekar

tags: life, writing

2188 likes

#15

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

3490 likes

#16

“The mind I love must have wild places.”
― Katherine Mansfield

2483 likes

#17

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words

4779 likes

#18

“Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.”
― Adam Lindsay Gordon

tags: courage, kindness, ye-weary-wayfarer

1959 likes

#19

“You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

1814 likes

#20

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

22056 likes

#21

“The writing life is punctuated by words, sentences, paragraph & pages. And by spurts of elation, inspiration, rejection & despair.”
― Mark Rubinstein

2 likes

#22

“A writer keeps going despite what awaits the effort, the detours, ruts, curves & unexpected roadblocks. The road is clear. Drive on”
― Mark Rubinstein

1 likes

#23

“After all, tomorrow is another day!”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

2145 likes

#24

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: comedy, horror, misattributed-ben-franklin

3594 likes

#25

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

10989 likes

#26

“For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”
― Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

1307 likes

#27

“When something upsets you in life, you only have two choices: Get over it or die mad.”
― Charline Ratcliff

8 likes

#28

“The writer's silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words.”
― Khaled Talib, The Little Book of Muses

tags: quotes-about-writing, quotes-and-saying, writing-advice, writing-books, writing-style

11 likes

#29

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg

tags: education, reading

2618 likes

#30

“Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

tags: cruelty, impact

1086 likes

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