2026 Reading Challenge

Sharem > Sharem's Quotes

Showing 1-20 of 20
sort by

    like
  • #1
    John Verdon
    “The sun sets and we sleep. The sun rises and we wake. We wake and, ever so briefly, ever so blindly, we enjoy the fantasy of beginning anew. Then, without fail, reality reasserts its presence.”
    ― John Verdon, Let the Devil Sleep
    34 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Neil Gaiman
    “Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Stardust
    tags: heart, lover, madman, minstrel
    906 likes

    • like
  • #3
    James Jones
    “That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
    ― James Jones, From Here to Eternity
    2115 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Andy Weir
    “Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”
    ― Andy Weir, The Martian
    2192 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Jack Kerouac
    “Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
    5614 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Jonathan Anthony Burkett
    “You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through.”
    ― Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Neglected but Undefeated: The Life of a Boy Who Never Knew a Mother s Love
    tags: inspirational, lessons, life, trials, trouble
    184 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Only in silence the word,
    Only in dark the light,
    Only in dying life:
    Bright the hawk's flight
    On the empty sky.

    —The Creation of Éa”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin
    489 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Ovid
    “Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)”
    ― Ovid
    951 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    177057 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
    148390 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
    135500 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
    109281 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
    88102 likes

    • like
  • #14
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
    60256 likes

    • like
  • #15
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
    62172 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Neil Gaiman
    “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
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
    45239 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
    39243 likes

    • like
  • #18
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
    35628 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
    20725 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
    13802 likes



Rss
All Quotes



Tags From Sharem’s Quotes

heart
lover
madman
minstrel
inspirational
lessons
life
trials
trouble
attributed-no-source
be-yourself
gilbert-perreira
honesty
misattributed-oscar-wilde
quote-investigator
human-nature
humor
infinity
philosophy
science
stupidity
universe
books
simile
soul
friendship
actions
disappointed
disappointment
dream
dreams
explore
misattributed-mark-twain
sail
love
dragons
fairy-tales
paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
navigation
read
readers
reading
reading-books
writing