Quotes - Sara Sellers (sarasellers) (Americus, GA) Showing 1-30 of 76

#1

“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: poetry

3879 likes

#2

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

19423 likes

#3

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy

36842 likes

#4

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

29738 likes

#5

“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”
― Elizabeth Cady Stanton

tags: bravery, fear, perseverence, strength

1404 likes

#6

“Freedom lies in being bold.”
― Robert Frost

tags: boldness, courage, freedom

2640 likes

#7

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

5078 likes

#8

“She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

tags: on-quotes, quote

487 likes

#9

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

tags: books, friends, reading, teachers

13926 likes

#10

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

27728 likes

#11

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

tags: humbert-humbert, love

6116 likes

#12

“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
― Audre Lorde

2051 likes

#13

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

tags: cynical, life, truth

3274 likes

#14

“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

3571 likes

#15

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

74362 likes

#16

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
― St. Francis Of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

tags: inspirational

4837 likes

#17

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

10852 likes

#18

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

tags: beauty, delusion, goodness, lies, self-deception, wisdom

5510 likes

#19

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

13801 likes

#20

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

tags: love

4677 likes

#21