Aditya Watts > Aditya's Quotes

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

“Why should things be easy to understand?”
― Thomas Pynchon

“They do not love that do not show their love.”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“I am not bound to please thee with my answers.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
― William Shakespeare

“Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night;
Give me my Romeo; and, when I shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night...”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“No, no, I am but shadow of myself:
You are deceived, my substance is not here;”
― William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1

“Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.”
― William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

“For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.”
― William Shakespeare, The Sonnets

“Like madness is the glory of this life.”
― Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

“Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.”
― franz kafka

“I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.”
― Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka's The Castle

“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
― Franz Kafka

“Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasé ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the atmosphere of great days … the region of pure poetry.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Intimate Journals

“Inspiration comes of working every day.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“Love loves to love love.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another s soul.”
― James Joyce

“Art is science made clear.”
― Jean Cocteau

“Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.”
― Jean Cocteau

“Be yourself. The world worships the original.”
― Jean Cocteau

“What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart?
It is too heavy. It will always show.
Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.”
― Jean Cocteau, Le Grand Ecart / Thomas L'Imposteur / Les Enfants Terribles / Le fantome de

“Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”
― jean cocteau

“The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.”
― Georges Bataille

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
― Franz Kafka

“Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.”
― Franz Kafka

“Time is
Too Slow for those who Wait,
Too Swift for those who Fear,
Too Long for those who Grieve,
Too Short for those who Rejoice;
But for those who Love,
Time is not.”
― Henry van Dyke, Music and Other Poems

“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew