Alitheia > Alitheia's Quotes

“If one's heart is small, all their sufferings even as large as a house can only be crammed in that small corner. But if one's heart were as vast as heaven and earth, then even if their troubles were as large as a mountain, they would become nothing more than a droplet of water in the endless sea.

心有一隅，房子大的烦恼就只能挤在一隅中，心有四方天地，山大的烦恼也不过是沧海一粟”
― Priest, 杀破狼 [Sha Po Lang]

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Anyone who sang the praises of undying love in this day and age belonged to the first rank of hypocrites in Daisuke's estimate.”
― Natsume Sōseki, And Then

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