Robin > Robin's Quotes

“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Mom told me, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don’t you think?” I told her, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“. . .my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, or censors them. Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“I said something about reading not being knowledge, about knowledge without experience being food without sustenance.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each other as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“That's the difference between heaven and hell! In hell we starve! In heaven we feed each other!”
― jonathan safran foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I spent my life learning to feel less.
Every day I felt less.
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“When she saw how they worked, not on their own but two by two, working their trunks together to tie a knot, she realized why they'd been so astonished by her hands, because of course she could tie knots on her own. At first she felt that this gave an advantage--she needed no one else-- and then she realized how it cut her off from others. Perhaps all human beings were like that.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“L'essentiel, le plus souvent, n'a point de poids. L'essentiel ici, en apparence, n'a été qu'un sourire. Un sourire est souvent l’essentiel. On est payé par un sourire. On est récompensé par un sourire. On est animé par un sourire. Et la qualité d’un sourire peut faire que l’on meure.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Lettre à un otage

“Au-dessus de mes mots maladroits, au-dessus des raisonnements qui me peuvent tromper, tu considères en moi simplement l'Homme. Tu honores en moi l'ambassadeur de croyances, de coutumes, d'amours particulières. Si je diffère de toi, loin de te léser, je t'augmente. Tu m'interroges comme l'on interroge le voyageur.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Lettre à un otage

“Le garçon qui m’avait souri, et qui, une seconde plus tôt, n’était qu’une fonction, un outil, une sorte d’insecte monstrueux, voici qu’il se révélait un peu gauche, presque timide, d’une timidité merveilleuse. Non qu’il fût moins brutal qu’un autre, ce terroriste ! mais l’avènement de l’homme en lui éclairait si bien sa part vulnérable ! On prend de grands airs, nous les hommes, mais on connaît, dans le secret du coeur, l’hésitation, le doute, le chagrin…”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Lettre à un otage

“L’ordre pour l’ordre châtre l’homme de son pouvoir essentiel, qui est de transformer le monde et soi-même.
La vie crée l’ordre, mais l’ordre ne crée pas la vie.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Lettre à un otage

“Si je diffère de toi, loin de te léser, je t'augmente.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Lettre à un otage

“Mon mérite était nul : l'avidité qui, dans notre société, tient lieu d'ambition, m'a toujours fait rire”
― Albert Camus