mart. ula > mart.'s Quotes

“I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
― Carl Sandburg

“It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.”
― Ismail Kadare, Broken April

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis

“Deserve your dream.”
― octavio paz

“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“There must be those who differ. If there were no unorthodox thought there would be no thought at all”
― Anatoly Rybakov

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
― Audre Lorde

“Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.”
― Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket

“...the whole universe is contagious if you look at it long enough. Just opening your eyes puts you in front of a mirror, psychologically speaking. Garbage in, garbage out. Or rather, garbage goes in, but you never get rid of it. It just lies there turning to dust and slowly wafting a thin layer of grime on to every other object in your brain. Scraping the gunk off is not only a major challenge, but the chief burden of human existence. that's why I keep things so clean. Otherwise I would see little flecks of [ ] shit everywhere I looked ...”
― Nell Zink

“By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on.”
― William S. Burroughs

“The lightbulb in my bathroom has blown [...] at night it's dark there in a really weird way, I can stand for ages looking at everything in there, the towels hanging from the hooks, the toothbrush in the glass, the toothpaste, the razor, the shower curtain, and it's like I'm not in the room, like I shouldn't be there, like I'm seeing things how they are when I'm not there, do you understand what I mean? And that I shouldn't be, that somehow I'm a hindrance, but that's almost why I stay there.”
― Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories

“If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, The Church: A Comedy in Five Acts

“We now face the danger, which in the past has been the most destructive to thehumans: Success, plenty, comfort and ever-increasing leisure. No dynamic peoplehas ever survived these dangers.”
― John Steinbeck

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions

“Najlepszym przyjacielem Bronka Geldy był pies. Wabił się Koń. Należał do gatunku psów głupich głupotą, którą chciałoby się przytulić.”
― Jakub Małecki, Dygot