Quotes - Bert (bert82) (Opwijk, Belgium) Showing 1-30 of 50

#1

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

tags: books, humor, reading

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#2

“Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.”
― John Donne, The Poems of John Donne (Volume 1); Miscellaneous Poems (Songs and Sonnets) Elegies. Epithalamions, or Marriage Songs. Satires. Epigrams. the Progress of the Soul. Notes

tags: jail, palace, world

889 likes

#3

“All who joy would win
Must share it -- Happiness was born a twin.”
― George Gordon Byron, Don Juan

tags: don-juan, happiness, twin

656 likes

#4

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: alice-in-wonderland, breakfast, carroll

5424 likes

#5

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135483 likes

#6

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151322 likes

#7

“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.”
― Walt Disney

6253 likes

#8

“The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.”
― Marilyn Monroe

5806 likes

#9

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

8629 likes

#10

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

9010 likes

#11

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

tags: love

9265 likes

#12

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing

9941 likes

#13

“Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.”
― Paulsen, Gary

72 likes

#14

“The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

tags: inspirationally-true

91 likes

#15

“You're far from this. This story is just another few hundred pages of your mind.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

61 likes

#16

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing

5988 likes

#17

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

7807 likes

#18

“I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

333 likes

#19

“That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

131 likes

#20

“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

tags: books, reading

2138 likes

#21

“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

tags: childhood, disease, literature

2599 likes

#22

“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
― Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

tags: dream, fate, hope

2585 likes

#23

“In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

tags: fortune, luck, stupidity

136 likes

#24

“Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.”
― Patricia A. McKillip

tags: imagination

1891 likes

#25

“I didn't know then that this was how deep emotion most often comes, from opposite directions and at once, when you are least aware and farthest from yourself.”
― Sheridan Hay, The Secret of Lost Things

14 likes

#26

“Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves.”
― Sheridan Hay, The Secret of Lost Things

30 likes

#27

“The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become”
― Sheridan Hay, The Secret of Lost Things

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#28

“A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.”
― Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Rashomon and Other Stories

1046 likes

#29

“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.”
― Markus Zusak

tags: book

3066 likes

#30

“I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

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