Jessy > Jessy's Quotes

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
― Albert Einstein

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

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
― Daniel Defoe

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

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

“El mayor lujo de nuestra existencia, por miserable que sea, es que no sabemos los días que nos han tocado en suerte”
― John Katzenbach, El psicoanalista

“Tememos que nos maten. Pero es mucho peor que nos destruyan.”
― John Katzenbach, The Analyst

“Hasta los malos poetas aman la muerte”
― John Katzenbach, The Analyst

“Ése es uno de los principales problemas de estar loco: nunca estás seguro de las cosas”
― John Katzenbach, The Madman's Tale

“El mejor juego es aquel en el que no te das cuenta de que estas jugando.”
― John Katzenbach, The Analyst

“That truth is far stronger than death.”
― John Katzenbach, The Analyst

“La Historia es una pesadilla de la que intento despertar...”
― John Katzenbach, La Sombra

“Era mejor evitar las heridas desde un principio que tener que tratarlas”
― Trudi Canavan, The Magician's Apprentice

“Lo único que se necesita en la vida es seguridad, conocimiento y mucho descaro.”
― Trudi Canavan, The Magician's Apprentice

“Kyralia estaria muy bien gobernada, si gobernar fuera un delito”
― Trudi Canavan, The Magicians' Guild

“Todos somos esclavos, ama —replicó Vora—. Las mujeres. Los hombres, a su manera. No existe la libertad, solo diferentes tipos de esclavitud. Incluso un ashaki ve constreñidos sus actos por las restricciones que imponen la tradición y la política. Y el emperador es aún menos libre que ellos.”
― Trudi Canavan, The Magician's Apprentice

“La gente y la tierra son lo mismo - solia decir su padre- si desatiendes una de las dos, la otra acaba pagando las consecuencias”
― Trudi Canavan, The Magician's Apprentice

“Ay, los hombres casados podéis fingiros los amos de vuestros castillos, torres y demás, pero el ama del dormitorio es el ama del amo, ¿eh?”
― brent weeks, Beyond the Shadows