Quotes - Parthiban Sekar (parthibansekar) (Belfast, The United Kingdom) Showing 1-30 of 358

#1

“Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.”
― Susan Sontag

tags: philosophy, words, world, writing

#2

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: 265, raskolnikov, suffering

1243 likes

#3

“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

tags: loneliness, loss, yearning

3139 likes

#4

“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: philosophy

1880 likes

#5

“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.”
― Doris Lessing

tags: learning

430 likes

#6

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ”
― Jane Austen

tags: education, women

1771 likes

#7

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion

14710 likes

#8

“With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: love

1643 likes

#9

“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
― John Steinbeck

tags: corruption, fear, life, power

663 likes

#10

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

tags: contrast, life, opposites, summer, winter

1956 likes

#11

“The only question now is: How much can I hang on to?”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

tags: charlie, flowers-for-algernon

44 likes

#12

“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: adulthood, childhood

3007 likes

#13

“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

tags: words

3193 likes

#14

“If he touched her, he couldn't talk to her, if he loved her he couldn't leave, if he spoke he couldn't listen, if he fought he couldn't win.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

tags: forbidden-love

300 likes

#15

“It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined. ”
― Arundhati Roy , The God of Small Things

240 likes

#16

“How did it get so late so soon?”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: afternoon, december, flewn, june, late, night, soon, time

4195 likes

#17

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

tags: comedy, life, yourself

25782 likes

#18

“ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

tags: asap

1516 likes

#19

“How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: late, soon, time

1334 likes

#20

“Poor empty pants
With nobody inside them.”
― Dr. Seuss

817 likes

#21

“I guess there are never enough books.”
― John Steinbeck, A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia

tags: books, reading, sufficiency

1113 likes

#22

“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

tags: death, fear, life

1017 likes

#23

“I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

36 likes

#24

“I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

42 likes

#25

“I see now that when Norma flowered in our garden I became a weed, allowed to exist only where I would not be seen, in corners and dark places.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

41 likes

#26

“I passed your floor on the way up, and now I’m passing it on the way down, and I don’t think I’ll be taking this elevator again.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

40 likes

#27

“People resent being shown that they don't approach the complexities of the problem - they don't know what exists beyond the surface ripples.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

27 likes

#28

“The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”
― Chinua Achebe

1262 likes

#29

“. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
― Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence

tags: inspirational

2161 likes

#30

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

5848 likes

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