Maria > Maria's Quotes

“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
― Franz Kafka

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

“I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.”
― Jack London

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Virginia Woolf

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“What did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think. I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“I leave to arrive,
go away to be closer.”
― Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Trekways of the Wind

“Perhaps people only exist in my thoughts
Perhaps the sky only exists in my mind

When will I wake up and to what”
― Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Trekways of the Wind

“For a long time I though
that one had to accomplish something

Now I just watch
listen
receive

Live”
― Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Trekways of the Wind

“I have not planned to become something
and what I do is not a job
I am not collecting money or property
I am not saving my life for the future

I belong to the wind
but I live
and this seems to be the intention of life
today I live
here and now
and if that is too much
I won't be alive tomorrow

That is the way it is and so what”
― Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Trekways of the Wind

“I know
that you are waiting for a dawn
a wondrously beautiful future

I don't want to deny you that
because dreaming is the gift
of life”
― Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Trekways of the Wind

“Days pass by, months and even years
The meaning of life is still
as unclear

In the evening I sit down
let my eyes travel

Days pass by, months
and even years”
― Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Trekways of the Wind

“If it's worries you want
the whole world is yours”
― Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Trekways of the Wind

“Everything is so beautiful
I am afraid
to wake up again
to the hard world”
― Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Trekways of the Wind

“What is it
the heart wants
why are the thought crying”
― Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Trekways of the Wind

“I leave now
to return

Travel far
to be close”
― Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Trekways of the Wind

“Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
― T.S. Eliot

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was.”
― J.M. Barrie