Elena > Elena's Quotes

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

“How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

“What kind of times are these, when
To talk about trees is almost a crime
Because it implies silence about so many horrors?”
― Bertolt Brecht

“If somebody could write a book for people who never read they would make a fortune”
― Nancy Mitford, Love from Nancy

“The more you love, the more you suffer”
― Vincent van Gogh

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

“Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.”
― Kait Rokowski

“Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.”
― Edith Wharton, Xingu and other Stories

“This is what life does for you in the end; it arranges a fight you can't win.”
― Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light

“A terrible confession it was (he put his hat on again) but now, at the age of fifty-three, one scarcely needed people any more. Life itself, every moment of it, every drop of it, here, this instant, now, in the sun, in Regent's Park, was enough. Too much, indeed. A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, now that one had acquired the power, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning< which both were so much more solid than they used to be, so much less personal.”
― Virginia Woolf