Quotes - Raphael Dourado (raphaeldourado) (Recife, 05, Brazil) Showing 1-26 of 26

#1

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding

3228 likes

#2

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
― Nikolai V. Gogol

tags: humor, sadness

3094 likes

#3

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

16423 likes

#4

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: inspirational, life, work

2365 likes

#5

“Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
― Leonard Woolf

1565 likes

#6

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

42165 likes

#7

“are you breathing, are you lucky enough
to be breathing”
― Hettie Jones

1274 likes

#8

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad

11489 likes

#9

“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

tags: happiness, life, sea

2170 likes

#10

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, fairytales, growing-up

18214 likes

#11

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
― Doris Lessing

3098 likes

#12

“Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
― Ingmar Bergman

2190 likes

#13

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: reading

13725 likes

#14

“There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

1150 likes

#15

“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
― Carl Sandburg

3017 likes

#16

“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

tags: inspirational

2472 likes

#17

“To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.”
― Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Aphorisms

tags: content, materialism

1394 likes

#18

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world

8509 likes

#19

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

85350 likes

#20

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: inspirational, talent

8197 likes

#21

“I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.”
― Jack London, The Turtles of Tasman

1726 likes

#22

“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
― Studs Terkel

2113 likes

#23

“April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.”
― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales

tags: humor

1449 likes

#24

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

2893 likes

#25

“They were firemakers! They were gods! [humans]”
― Jack London, White Fang

16 likes

#26

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

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