Quotes - Ashleigh (x-ashleigh) Showing 1-30 of 41

#1

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
― Anita Desai

tags: travel

#2

“Just be happy, and if you can't be happy, do things that make you happy. Or do nothing with the people that make you happy.”
― Esther Earl, This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

176 likes

#3

“How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”
― Jonathan Franzen

1284 likes

#4

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

tags: night, poetry

7889 likes

#5

“I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.”
― Edith Sitwell

tags: catfish, eccentricity, eels, fish, individuality

2059 likes

#6

“Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.”
― Adam Lindsay Gordon

tags: courage, kindness, ye-weary-wayfarer

1959 likes

#7

“There comes a point in your life when you realize:
Who matters,
Who never did,
Who won't anymore,
And who always will.
So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.”
― Adam L Gordon

145 likes

#8

“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: characters, dreams, touchstones

2397 likes

#9

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

tags: grudges

4152 likes

#10

“I write because you exist.”
― Michael Faudet

225 likes

#11

“A mind possessed by unmade books.”
― Michael Faudet

tags: inspiration

109 likes

#12

“To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.”
― Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

2540 likes

#13

“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín

2034 likes

#14

“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
― Richard Wright

1612 likes

#15

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

2203 likes

#16

“Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.”
― Louise Erdrich

1324 likes

#17

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing

3691 likes

#18

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

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

9975 likes

#19

“I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

1058 likes

#20

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

2461 likes

#21

“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow

tags: happiness, love

3191 likes

#22

“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
― Sue Grafton

tags: ideas

2080 likes

#23

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

tags: logic, love

9156 likes

#24

“Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”
― Anita Desai

1320 likes

#25