Samuel > Samuel's Quotes

“What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
― Brian Jacques, Redwall

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

“If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one.”
― Masashi Kishimoto

“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
― Willa Cather

“The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.”
― Frank Miller

“Don't think about what you could have done, concentrate on what you plan to do; it is more useful.”
― Brian Jacques, Martin the Warrior

“Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis

“All stories are the sin of their weaver.”
― Miyuki Miyabe

“Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.”
― Walter Moers

“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
― André Brink

“I've never thought much of strictly organised and methodical study. You can't arrange a library in alphabetical order until you've collected one.”
― Walter Moers

“Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay.”
― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

“The life of the Addict is always the same. There is no excitement, no glamour, no fun. There are no good times, there is no joy, there is no happiness. There is no future and no escape. There is only an obsession. An all-encompassing, fully enveloping, completely overwhelming obsession. To make light of it, brag about it, or revel in the mock glory of it is not in any way, shape or form related to its truth, and that is all that matters, the truth.”
― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones