A. Lynn > A.'s Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 72
« previous 1 3
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Émile Zola
    “If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
    ― Émile Zola
    tags: art, calling, life
    3816 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Lili St. Crow
    “I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.”
    ― Lili St. Crow, Jealousy
    tags: death, holding-on, leaving, left, loneliness, strange-angels
    747 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: anger, books, friends, greedy, life, loneliness, man, myself, selfish, travel, woman, work, write
    2860 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Emilie Autumn
    “You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.”
    ― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
    tags: pain
    1713 likes

    • like
  • #5
    A.W. Tozer
    “It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.”
    ― A.W. Tozer
    tags: pain
    456 likes

    • like
  • #6
    David Richo
    “Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”
    ― David Richo
    tags: healing, inspiration, pain, psychology, relationships, therapy
    1862 likes

    • like
  • #7
    George R.R. Martin
    “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: hurt, pain, perfect, truthful
    5139 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
    “There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.”
    ― Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
    tags: healing, pain, suffering, wounds
    196 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Andrew Boyd
    “Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.”
    ― Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe
    tags: compassion, destiny, empathy, pain, universe
    1300 likes

    • like
  • #10
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: smiling
    4045 likes

    • like
  • #11
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Think how you love me,' she whispered. 'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember.'

    You'll always be like this to me.'

    Oh no; but promise me you'll remember.' Her tears were falling. 'I'll be different, but somewhere lost inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Magnetism
    1232 likes

    • like
  • #12
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: inspirational, life
    1067 likes

    • like
  • #13
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up
    tags: sadness
    298 likes

    • like
  • #14
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “she knew that for her the greatest sin now and in the future was to delude herself. It had been a long lesson but she had learned it. Either you think--or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    156 likes

    • like
  • #15
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed...

    He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky.

    I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    219 likes

    • like
  • #16
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “You will walk differently alone, dear, through a thicker atmosphere, forcing your way through the shadows of chairs, through the dripping smoke of the funnels. You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
    251 likes

    • like
  • #17
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    567 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Pablo Neruda
    “As if you were on fire from within.

    The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
    tags: beauty, inner-beauty, love, passion
    4199 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Anaïs Nin
    “People living deeply have no fear of death.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
    tags: death
    1791 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Anaïs Nin
    “Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s. ”
    ― Anaïs Nin
    705 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Anaïs Nin
    “Stories do not end.”
    ― anais nin
    277 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Anaïs Nin
    “I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
    tags: writing
    195 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Anaïs Nin
    “If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
    101 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Anaïs Nin
    “When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
    90 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Jack Kerouac
    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
    tags: dharma, simplicity, writing
    8463 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Harper Lee
    “She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it. ”
    ― Harper Lee
    tags: inspirational, spiritual
    16 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Cao Yu
    “For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.”
    ― Cao Yu
    tags: best, life, remains, short, try, writer
    17 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Wilfred Owen
    “This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War. Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.”
    ― Wilfred Owen, The Poems of Wilfred Owen
    tags: death-and-dying, pity, war, wwi
    39 likes

    • like
  • #29
    Sharon Salzberg
    “Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.”
    ― Sharon Salzberg, Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation
    tags: buddhism, deceit, deception, fable, fake, false, fiction, inspiration, lies, meditation, psychology, stories
    79 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Haruki Murakami
    “Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    5640 likes



Rss
« previous 1 3
All Quotes



Tags From A.’s Quotes

art
calling
life
death
holding-on
leaving
left
loneliness
strange-angels
anger
books
friends
greedy
man
myself
selfish
travel
woman
work
write
pain
healing
inspiration
psychology
relationships
therapy
hurt
perfect
truthful
suffering
wounds
compassion
destiny
empathy
universe
smiling
inspirational
sadness
beauty
inner-beauty
love
passion
writing
dharma
simplicity
spiritual
best
remains
short
try
writer
death-and-dying
pity
war
wwi
buddhism
deceit
deception
fable
fake
false
fiction
lies
meditation
stories