Emerson > Emerson's Quotes

“Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

“From the moment we are born, we begin to die.”
― Janne Teller, Nothing

“All the world's a stage we're going through.”
― Lorrie Moore, Anagrams

“It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them. ”
― Eva Ibbotson, The Secret of Platform 13

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

“The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“I'm sorry, but I don't get it. If we're supposed to ignore everything that's wrong with our lives, then I can't see how we'll ever make things right.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
― Marianne Moore

“Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.”
― Chris Rock

“You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.”
― Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”
― John Updike

“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“ Thinking of you, wherever you are.
 We pray for our sorrows to end,
 and hope that our hearts will blend.
 Now I will step forward to realize this wish.
 And who knows:
 Starting a new journey may not so hard
 or maybe it has already begun.
 There are many worlds,
 but they share the same sky-
 one sky, one destiny.”
― Tetsuya Nomura

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

“I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.”
― Nikolai Gogol

“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“We don't get to choose what hurts us”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“I love her so much more when she's not here.”
― Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down