Louis Muñoz > Louis's Quotes

“Sometimes I think the only thing worth saying is “I love you.”
― Sylvia Boorstein, It's Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness

“Now isn't that nice!' said the old lady. 'If cousins are the right kind, they're best of all: kinder than sisters and brothers, and closer than friends.”
― Elizabeth Enright, Gone-Away Lake

“Grownups! Everyone remembers them. How strange and even sad it is that we never became what they were: beings noble, infallible, and free. We never became them. One of the things we discover as we live is that we never become anything different from what we are. We are no less ourselves at forty than we were at four, and because of this we know grownups as Grownups only once in life: during our own childhood. We never meet them in our lives again, and we will miss them always.”
― Elizabeth Enright, Doublefields: Memories and Stories

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

“The dam of my eyes broke, and tears flooded the land.”
― James Sallis, Ghost of a Flea

“All human wisdom is contained in these two words--"Wait and Hope.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it’s really a gift. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not.”
― Chris Van Allsburg

“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
― Mark Twain

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Stories are a different kind of true.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“What makes night within us may leave stars.”
― Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three

“Some people were born just so they could be buried.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time

“The few exiles who returned to the hospital were received with much less fanfare, because it was unwise to attract attention. This was the tacit slogan throughout the country: don’t provoke the military, so as to pretend the recent past was buried and in the process of being forgotten.”
― Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea

“What’s the worst that could happen?”
― Alana Melos, The Queen of Swords

“You weren't entirely useless, you served as a bad example”
― Terry Virts, How to Astronaut: Everything You Need to Know Before Leaving Earth

“Libraries are the granary of the spirit, without which we could not survive the siege.”
― K.J. Parker, The Big Score

“We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”
― Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
― E.M. Forster

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

“Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Correction

“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
― Stephen King

“I try all things, I achieve what I can.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Maybe there were no villains in my mother’s story at all. Just men and women, trying to do their best by each other. And failing.”
― John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies

“He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn't changed. Yet nothing would be the same. All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name