Catherine > Catherine's Quotes

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

“Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.”
― Albert Camus

“Intelligence without wisdom brings destruction.”
― Erol Ozan

“Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of Dawn

“There are times when creation can be achieved only through destruction. The urge to destroy is then a creative urge.”
― Bakunin

“It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks. ”
― Sherman Alexie, Ten Little Indians

“Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“So now, all alone or not, you gotta walk ahead. Thing to remember is if we're all alone, then we're all together in that too.”
― Cecelia Ahern

“What is most personal is most universal.”
― Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy