João Ferraz > João's Quotes

“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
-- Circular Letter to My Friends in Italy”
― Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin

“I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.”
― Mikhail Bakunin

“Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality”
― Bakunin

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
― Carl Jung

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.”
― Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters

“If you don't feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated.”
― Paul F. Davis

“In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.”
― Damon Albarn

“Nem sempre uma linda cara
Traduz encanto no mundo
Há mil fontes d'água clara
Cheias de lodo no fundo.”
― Joaquim de Barros Ferreira

“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.”
― C.G. Jung

“The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.”
― Alice Morse Earle

“If you want to learn what someone fears losing, watch what they photograph.”
― Anonymous