Madeeha > Madeeha's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 43
« previous 1
sort by

  • #1
    John Marsden
    “We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”
    John Marsden, The Dead of Night

  • #2
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Short cuts make long delays.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #3
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #4
    Jane Austen
    “Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
    Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

  • #5
    Kate DiCamillo
    “Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.”
    Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux
    tags: fate

  • #6
    Kate DiCamillo
    “Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.”
    Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

  • #7
    Kate DiCamillo
    “This is the danger of loving: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, you cannot stop those you love from dying.”
    Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

  • #8
    Khaled Hosseini
    “Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #9
    Khaled Hosseini
    “There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #10
    Khaled Hosseini
    “You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #11
    Robert Frost
    “Freedom lies in being bold.”
    Robert Frost

  • #12
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  • #13
    Jerome K. Jerome
    “I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
    Jerome K. Jerome

  • #14
    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #15
    Mario Vargas Llosa
    “Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.”
    Mario Vargas Llosa

  • #16
    Anne Brontë
    “But he who dares not grasp the thorn
    Should never crave the rose.”
    Anne Bronte

  • #17
    William Faulkner
    “...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
    William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

  • #18
    Francis of Assisi
    “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
    St. Francis Of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

  • #19
    Henry Adams
    “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
    Henry Adams

  • #20
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
    Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

  • #21
    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #22
    Agatha Christie
    “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
    Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

  • #23
    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #24
    Jane Austen
    “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
    Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

  • #25
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    L.M. Montgomery

  • #26
    John Steinbeck
    “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
    John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

  • #27
    Katherine Anne Porter
    “The past is never where you think you left it.”
    Katherine Anne Porter

  • #28
    Jon Krakauer
    “I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.”
    Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

  • #29
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

  • #30
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit



Rss
« previous 1