Nicholas > Nicholas's Quotes

“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“What injures the hive injures the bee.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“There’s nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“A sky full of possibilities, sealed by nightfall, encased the wonder of the city’s eternal soul. Like a mirror to the stars, the city’s glow accented the brilliance of this human masterpiece. The carriage travelers fell victim to the splendor and elegance of Buenos Aires, entranced by its singular beauty.”
― Nicholas Warack, The Sailor & The Porteña

“They kissed to remember as they did to forget; they kissed to know so they could dream; they kissed to believe that a kiss could do so.”
― Nicholas Warack, The Sailor & The Porteña

“People are all the same: they shit, they die, and somewhere in between, they bitch their way through it. You’ve got to get what’s yours while you can.”
― Nicholas Warack, The Sailor & The Porteña

“In their hearts, the family knew this venture was all for naught, but such a sweet lie made watery soups and stale bread go down better than a bitter truth.”
― Nicholas Warack, The Sailor & The Porteña

“Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”
― Emil Cioran

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“I am sorry I can say nothing more to console you, for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on stage. But active love is labor and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“The man who kills a man kills a man.
The man who kills himself kills all men.
As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy