Sebastian > Sebastian's Quotes

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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

“Take for yourself what you can, and don't be ruled by others; to belong to oneself - the whole savour of life lies in that.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Spring Torrents

“Weak people never put an end to things themselves. They always wait for the end.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Spring Torrents

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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

“La frase 'todo tiempo pasado fue mejor' no indica que antes sucedieran menos cosas malas, sino que -felizmente- la gente las echa en el olvido. ”
― Ernesto Sábato, El túnel

“A veces creo que nada tiene sentido. En un planeta minúsculo, que corre hacia la nada desde millones de años, nacemos en medio de dolores, crecemos, luchamos, nos enfermamos, sufrimos, hacemos sufrir, gritamos, morimos, mueren y otros están naciendo para volver a empezar la comedia inútil.”
― Ernesto Sábato, El túnel

“A cada uno su pena, pero a todos la alegria”
― Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Un mundo para Julius

“Cease, cows, life is short.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

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

“Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

“Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all”
― Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, The Nose

“What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?”
― Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya

“If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Seagull