Big Books of 2026

İ > İ's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 60
« previous 1
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Hermann Hesse
    “When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.”
    ― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
    tags: siddhartha
    1544 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Philip K. Dick
    “It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
    tags: comedy, funny, interview, tragedy
    174 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humour, telekinetics
    10117 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Ovid
    “Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)”
    ― Ovid
    950 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Joseph Heller
    “Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
    ― Joseph Heller
    tags: humor
    1492 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Philip K. Dick
    “If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
    tags: humor, irony, optimism, pessimism, schizophrenia, universe
    610 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Richard Matheson
    “That which you believe becomes your world.”
    ― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come
    2517 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Kōji Suzuki
    “There was no more meaningless phrase in all of language than "Cheer up!" The only way to get someone to cheer up was to help them forget, and saying "cheer up" had quite the opposite effect, only reminding the person why he or she was depressed in the first place.”
    ― Koji Suzuki, Spiral
    tags: cheer-up, depression, forgetting, grief
    46 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
    18025 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
    tags: not-alone
    1430 likes

    • like
  • #11
    W.B. Yeats
    “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
    ― W.B. Yeats
    tags: awe, magic, perception, wonder
    3582 likes

    • like
  • #12
    W.B. Yeats
    “...I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made...”
    ― William Butler Yeats
    316 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Lauren Bacall
    “You don’t always win your battles, but it’s good to know you fought”
    ― Lauren Bacall
    86 likes

    • like
  • #14
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
    62212 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
    39253 likes

    • like
  • #16
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: friendship, literature
    5048 likes

    • like
  • #17
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: disappointment, expression, face, life, satire
    651 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Frank Miller
    “The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.”
    ― Frank Miller
    tags: batman, comic-book-heroes, frank-miller
    1684 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Joseph Heller
    “Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
    ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
    tags: misattributed-kurt-cobain
    3319 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
    32148 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
    tags: insightful
    1360 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
    353 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
    57 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Haruki Murakami
    “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: adversity, inspirational, life-lessons, problems, trials
    10743 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
    ― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
    tags: inspirational, running
    8526 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
    tags: catatonia, coma, life
    3338 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “- Why me?
    - That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?
    - Yes.
    - Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
    1259 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Neal Stephenson
    “Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.”
    ― Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver
    104 likes

    • like
  • #29
    C.S. Lewis
    “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: love
    20541 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Kōji Suzuki
    “The world doesn't hate you as much as you think it does.”
    ― Koji Suzuki, Birthday
    1053 likes



Rss
« previous 1
All Quotes



Tags From İ’s Quotes

siddhartha
comedy
funny
interview
tragedy
humour
telekinetics
humor
irony
optimism
pessimism
schizophrenia
universe
cheer-up
depression
forgetting
grief
action
attitude
choice
imagination
inspiration
life
pretend
not-alone
awe
magic
perception
wonder
love
navigation
friendship
literature
disappointment
expression
face
satire
batman
comic-book-heroes
frank-miller
misattributed-kurt-cobain
deadlines
work
writing
insightful
adversity
inspirational
life-lessons
problems
trials
running
catatonia
coma