Irene > Irene's Quotes

“Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“Those who do not weep, do not see.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Love truth, but pardon error.”
― Voltaire

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
― Dante Alighieri

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“Swiat nie bylby taki zly, gdyby ludzie nie chcieli go naprawiac.”
― Andrzej Szczypiorski

“Nie ma takiego klamstwa, ktorego nie mozna wypowiedziec, aby dojsc do prawdy. Nie ma takiej przysiegi, ktorej nie mozna zlamac, aby ocalic wiernosc.”
― Andrzej Szczypiorski

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

“Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.”
― Anya Seton, Green Darkness

“I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.”
― Anya Seton, Katherine

“It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Memory may be mischievous but it is also remarkable, self-cleaning, creative, ultimately as magical as a prediction.”
― David Schmahmann, Ivory From Paradise

“I wish we had left things undisturbed, exactly as they were and beneath whatever layers of silt had come to cover them, and yet I feel joy to be here.”
― David Schmahmann, Ivory From Paradise

“She always told us there were two types of women. Those who are lit from the outside and those who are lit from within. The first needs the shimmer of a diamond to maker her sparkle, but for the other, her beauty is illuminated through the sheer light of her soul.”
― Alyson Richman

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

“Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”
― Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“Love never fails. —I Corinthians 13:8a”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version

“In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.”
― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

“What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.”
― William Wordsworth

“Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.”
― Martin Amis, The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
― Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

“Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.”
― Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank

“Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites