Stefan > Stefan's Quotes

“My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock

“I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
― Harlan Ellison

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If an angelic being fell from the sky and tried to live in this world of ours I think even they would commit many wrongs.”
― Sui Ishida

“If you were to write a story with me in the lead role, it would certainly be... a tragedy”
― Sui Ishida, Tokyo Ghoul, Tome 1

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
― Milan Kundera

“Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?”
― Emil Cioran

“Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”
― Emil Cioran

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
― Moliere

“In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“Good Lord, only a moment of bliss? Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of a man's life?”
― Theodore Dostoievsky

“The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Ja uopšte mislim da najčudniji ljudi izgledaju vrlo konvencionalno, vrlo
standardno. Jer čovek koji je zaista čudan iznutra, onaj koji je u dubokom
nesporazumu sa svetom koji ga ne prihvata i ne shvata, ne oseća nikakvu
potrebu da se ukrašava spolja, da privlači ičiju pažnju. Naprotiv! On želi
da se sakrije. Ima li čudnijeg ljudskog stvorenja od Kafke, na primer, a on
je gotovo čitavog života radio u jednom osiguravajućem društvu u Pragu,
ne razlikujući se spolja od ostalih činovnika.”
― Momo Kapor, Una

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

“To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.”
― Karl Jaspers

“I work extremely hard doing what I love, mainly to ensure that I don't have to work extremely hard doing what I hate.”
― Hugh MacLeod

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero