Quotes - Ori (orikay) (Tirana, 04, Albania) Showing 1-30 of 991

#1

“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum. ”
― Erich Maria Remarque

tags: arch-of-triumph

584 likes

#2

“It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.”
― Marcel Proust

559 likes

#3

“Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

tags: beauty, imagination, proust, women

809 likes

#4

“Some people are nobody's enemies but their own, yer know.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

tags: enemies, self-love

148 likes

#5

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: literature

3366 likes

#6

“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
― Johnny Cash

3744 likes

#7

“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”
― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

550 likes

#8

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: love

5296 likes

#9

“I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: care, diversity, heart, individuality, love, mind, seduction, soul

5651 likes

#10

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies

tags: advice-for-writers, awareness, life

2733 likes

#11

“Boredom: the desire for desires.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: truth

1023 likes

#12

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

tags: conscience, majority, right-and-wrong, truth, wrong

1602 likes

#13

“Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

848 likes

#14

“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”
― Leo Tolstoy

636 likes

#15

“But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

565 likes

#16

“Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: happiness, life

697 likes

#17

“Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

369 likes

#18

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

tags: literature, music, poetry

13888 likes

#19

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

6895 likes

#20

“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul”
― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

tags: love, soul, stars

4612 likes

#21

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: apothegm, optimism

5033 likes

#22

“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

2718 likes

#23

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: courage, inspirational

2012 likes

#24

“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
― Hugo, Victor, Les Misérables

tags: inspirational

2270 likes

#25

“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

2705 likes

#26

“Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

1681 likes