Cathy > Cathy's Quotes

“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”
― Anais Nin

“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”
― Sylvia Plath

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
― Anais Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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

“No, he is not tactful, yet have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet, at the same time, beautiful?”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.”
― E. M. Forster, A Room with a View

“By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.”
― E. M. Forster, A Room with a View

“It is fate that I am here,' George persisted, 'but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.”
― E. M. Forster, A Room with a View

“It isn’t possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“I suppose I shall have to live now”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“I will take you by a dear dirty back way, Miss Honeychurch, and if you bring me luck, we shall have an adventure.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“Passion should believe itself irresistible. It should forget civility and consideration and all the other curses of a refined nature. Above all, it should never ask for leave where there is a right of way.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View