S > S's Quotes

“Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“And you ask yourself: Where are your dreams? And you shake your head and say: How quickly do the years fly by! And again you ask yourself: What have you done with your years? Where have you buried your best days? Did you live or not?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Courage, man, the hurt cannot be much.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“There is nothing a woman needs so much as a sister.”
― Alex McCarthy, The Unbroken Beauty of Rosalind Bone

“She peels an orange, separates it in perfect halves, and gives one of them to me. If I could wear it like a friendship bracelet, I would. Instead I swallow it section by section and tell myself it means even more this way. To chew and to swallow in silence here with her. To taste the same thing in the same moment.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“Don't try to make me grow up before my time…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Turning economic contradictions into psychological problems is one of the standard tricks of the bourgeois ideology.”
― Lucien Sève

“…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“…often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Amy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward; men seldom do,—for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it; if it fails, they generously give her the whole.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women