Em > Em's Quotes

“What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths.”
― Joe Meno, The Boy Detective Fails

“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”
― Pablo Neruda

“I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.”
― Ayn Rand

“Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

“History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

“A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.”
― Mae West

“The heart lies to itself because it must.”
― Jack Gilbert

“I don't believe in karma, but I believe there are things that can happen that very specifically force you to understand what an asshole you were.”
― Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems