Liam > Liam's Quotes

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“I swear that each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and that it's the knockings and baterrings we sometimes hear in each other that keeps our intercourse from utter banaility.”
― Elizabeth Bowen

“Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.”
― Joe Klein, Primary Colors

“I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Fear, unfortunately, is a very big thing, and there's a great variety of kinds.”
― Henry James, What Maisie Knew

“When you are a child you are yourself and you know and see everything prophetically. And then suddenly something happens and you stop being yourself; you become what others force you to be. You lose your wisdom and your soul.”
― Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie

“Vic kept looking at Wilson's wagging jaw and thinking of the multitude of people like him on earth, perhaps half the people on earth were of his type, or potentially his type, and thinking that it was not bad at all to be leaving them. The ugly birds without wings. The mediocre who perpetuated mediocrity, who really fought and died for it. He smiled at Wilson's grim, resentful, the-world-owes-me-a-living face, which was the reflection of the small mind behind it, and Vic cursed it and all it stood for. Silently, and with a smile, and with all that was left of him, he cursed it.”
― Patricia Highsmith, Deep Water

“Robert wanted to be loved. My brother Tyrion has the same disease. Do you want to be loved, Sansa?”
“Everyone wants to be loved.”
“I see flowering hasn’t made you any brighter,” said Cersei. “Sansa, permit me to share a bit of womanly wisdom with you on this very special day. Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.”
― Thomas Hobbes

“Friendship is a tension. It makes delicate demands.”
― Sophocles, Electra

“Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour”
― Euripides, Medea

“Of all creatures that can feel and think,
we women are the worst treated things alive”
― Euripides, Medea