Quotes - Juan Ocampo (juanseocar) Showing 31-60 of 500

#31

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

tags: books, reading

2494 likes

#32

“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
― Roberto Bolano

tags: death, fear, hope, peace, reading, sex

1388 likes

#33

“If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Insufferable Gaucho

tags: expectations, feedback, opinions, outspokenness, responses

498 likes

#34

“I am neither I nor the other one
I am something in between”
― Mário de Sá-Carneiro

tags: identity

34 likes

#35

“Estou num daqueles dias em que nunca tive futuro.”
― Mário de Sá Carneiro

20 likes

#36

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

4074 likes

#37

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

tags: healing, injuries, memory, past, reality, scars, time

2753 likes

#38

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

2775 likes

#39

“No sé dónde nos han enseñado que socorrer al desvalido equivale a apartarlo de las garras de la muerte a cualquier precio.”
― Mario Bellatin, Beauty Salon

7 likes

#40

“Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently, and for the same reason.”
― Eça de Queirós

tags: diapers, politics

215 likes

#41

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

tags: literature, reading, solitude

4180 likes

#42

“Tiene mérito: hemos conseguido crear la ilusión de que somos más sabios que las gentes de tiempos anteriores”
― Peter Kingsley, In the Dark Places of Wisdom

2 likes

#43

“Always remember your focus determines your reality.”
― Peter Kingsley

15 likes

#44

“Rationality is simply mysticism misunderstood.”
― Peter Kingsley, Reality

11 likes

#45

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

7205 likes

#46

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

tags: courage, determination, hope, risk

6295 likes

#47

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling

6198 likes

#48

“When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.”
― Robert Aickman, Painted Devils: Strange Stories

25 likes

#49

“The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless”
― Robert Aickman

tags: time

79 likes

#50

“It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. ”
― Thomas Sowell

434 likes

#51

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
― Thomas Sowell

688 likes

#52

“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
― Thomas Sowell, Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays

662 likes

#53

“History is written by the victors.”
― Walter Benjamin

tags: history

504 likes

#54

“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”
― Walter Benjamin

tags: hope, love

455 likes

#55

“Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.”
― Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

171 likes

#56

“Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.”
― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate

215 likes

#57