Readers' Most Anticipated Books for Fall 2025

Kajka > Kajka's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 79
« previous 1 3
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Tennessee Williams
    “Time is the longest distance between two places.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
    tags: distance, time
    3206 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing
    5971 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander
    7814 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Langston Hughes
    “Life is for the living.
    Death is for the dead.
    Let life be like music.
    And death a note unsaid.”
    ― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems
    tags: death, life, music
    5141 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom
    7762 likes

    • like
  • #6
    William Shakespeare
    “All that glisters is not gold;
    Often have you heard that told:
    Many a man his life hath sold
    But my outside to behold:
    Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
    1739 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Gary Paulsen
    “I read like a wolf eats.
    I read myself to sleep every night.”
    ― Gary Paulsen
    1882 likes

    • like
  • #8
    William Goldman
    “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
    ― William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery
    tags: life, pain
    6209 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Suzanne Collins
    “You love me. Real or not real?"
    I tell him, "Real.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: katniss, love, peeta, suzanne-collins, the-hunger-games
    28524 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: inspirational, talent
    8162 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Anna Akhmatova
    “You will hear thunder and remember me,
    and think: she wanted storms...”
    ― Anna Akhmatova
    2309 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Katharine Hepburn
    “If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
    ― Katharine Hepburn
    tags: katharine-hepburn
    4421 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Vikram Chandra
    “The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.”
    ― Vikram Chandra
    1322 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Amelia Earhart
    “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
    ― Amelia Earhart
    2169 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Janet Frame
    “There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
    ― Janet Frame
    1609 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Boris Pasternak
    “I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
    ― Boris Pasternak
    tags: life
    2858 likes

    • like
  • #17
    James Fenimore Cooper
    “History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
    ― James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans
    tags: criticism, history
    1408 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign
    tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan
    3144 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Joni Mitchell
    “We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.”
    ― Joni Mitchell
    1352 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: astronomer, science, writer
    8049 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Roland Barthes
    “I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
    ― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text
    1916 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Be glad. Be good. Be brave.
    “Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
    ― Eleanor Hodgman Porter
    2607 likes

    • like
  • #23
    J.D. Robb
    “You--Roarke." Eyes watering, she reached for more tissue. "Jesus, Eve. Jesus Christ, you never sleep with anybody. And you're telling me you slept with Roarke?"

    "That's not precisely accurate. We didn't sleep.”
    ― J.D. Robb, Naked in Death
    tags: eve-dallas, mavis
    145 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    8127 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    ― Abigail Van Buren
    tags: character, life, wisdom
    7570 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Tom Bodett
    “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
    ― Tom Bodett
    tags: happiness, hope, joy, love, wishing
    8106 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Robert Frost
    “These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.”
    ― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
    tags: life
    9148 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
    13801 likes

    • like
  • #29
    John Muir
    “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
    ― John Muir
    tags: animals, caring, earth, forests, nature, plants, trees, wilderness
    3652 likes

    • like
  • #30
    August Wilson
    “Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
    ― August Wilson
    tags: character, courage, self-assessment, self-esteem, strength
    4208 likes



Rss
« previous 1 3
All Quotes



Tags From Kajka’s Quotes

distance
time
broken-glass
glass
moon
moonshine
show-don-t-tell
writing
death
life
music
advice-for-daily-living
books
reader
reading
speaking
thinking
wisdom
pain
katniss
love
peeta
suzanne-collins
the-hunger-games
inspirational
talent
katharine-hepburn
criticism
history
sci-fi
vorkosigan
astronomer
science
writer
eve-dallas
mavis
character
happiness
hope
joy
wishing
empowerment
flaws
freedom
gender
identity
image
independence
integrity
realism
self-awareness
self-determination
women
animals
caring
earth
forests
nature
plants
trees
wilderness
courage
self-assessment
self-esteem
strength