Benjamin > Benjamin's Quotes

“And so it goes...”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Endure. In enduring, grow strong.”
― Chris Avellone

“Я хочу хоть с одним человеком обо всем говорить как с собой”
― Федор Достоевский, Идиот

“Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.”
― China Miéville, The Scar

“Всем известно, что правду говорят только те, у кого нет остроумия.”
― Федор Достоевский, Идиот

“Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them for what they were and love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons. One simply became tired of holding back love and let it go because it needed some place to go. Then, usually, there was trouble.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.”
― Salman Rushdie

“In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this.
I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away.
I can't say goodbye.”
― China Miéville, The Scar