Ipsis > Ipsis's Quotes

“é no chuveiro que acontecem milagres: contempladas guerras internas e aniquilados quaisquer sossegos de alma. concluo, ainda debaixo da corrente: de olhos fechados a vida parece gigante.”
― Pedro Caetano Carvalho, Tudo isto tropeça dentro de mim

“a esperança alimenta os corpos, justifica o respirar dos pulmões, e o pulso, o bater dos corações. a esperança abre os olhos aos mortos.”
― Pedro Caetano Carvalho, Tudo isto tropeça dentro de mim

“Much as they wished to, they knew they were incapable of saving the whole world – but sometimes you just had to deal with what was right in front of you.”
― Angela Marsons, Silent Scream

“People are normally murdered because of something they have done, something they are doing or something they are going to do.”
― Angela Marsons, Silent Scream

“Intrinsically selfish in nature, grief was for the living. It was a measure of how keenly one felt their own personal loss, and in some cases, as Kim knew, their regret.”
― Angela Marsons, Silent Scream

“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”
― Philip Pullman

“I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
― C. S. Lewis

“we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
― Gore Vidal

“The secret to eternal youth is arrested development”
― Alice Roosevelt Longworth

“Um livro essencial para compreender o nosso tempo, especialmente a parte da tarde.”
― Ricardo Araújo Pereira, Boca do Inferno

“I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.”
― Thomas Keller

“If you love me, then love me.”
― Stephen King

“I don't like people. They fuck me up.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“Very early in my life it was too late.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

“To say more is to say less.”
― Harlan Ellison

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
― Woody Allen

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

“Things are not as easily understood nor as expressible as people usually would like us to believe. Most happenings are beyond expression; they exist where a word has never intruded.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
― Oscar Levant

“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“Tea is just an excuse.
i am drinking this sunset, this evening.
and you.”
― Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

“A cegueira também é isto, viver num mundo onde se tenha acabado a esperança.”
― José Saramago

“I always feel as if I'm struggling to become someone else. As if I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life, a new personality. I suppose it's part of growing up, yet it's also an attempt to re-invent myself. By becoming a different me, I could free myself of everything. I seriously believed I could escape myself - as long as I made the effort. But I always hit a dead end. No matter where I go, I still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but I'm still the same old incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that I can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as I'll come to defining myself.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun