Sophie Pesek > Sophie's Quotes

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

“I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”
― Mary Oliver

“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.”
― Leonard Bernstein

“And so it goes...”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.”
― John Rawls

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“Science has taught me that everything is more complicated than we first assume, and that being able to derive happiness from discovery is a recipe for a beautiful life. It has also convinced me that carefully writing everything down is the only real defense we have against forgetting something important that once was and is no more, including the spruce tree that should have outlived me but did not.”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl