Quotes - Cynthia (cynesthesia) (Seattle, WA) Showing 1-30 of 37

#1

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality

7354 likes

#2

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: cynicism

4094 likes

#3

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students."

[Letter, November 1856]”
― Hector Berlioz

tags: death, lessons, life, mortality, time

139 likes

#4

“If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
― Conan O'Brien

3093 likes

#5

“Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.”
― Charles Eames

1504 likes

#6

“Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.”
― May Sarton, The Poet and the Donkey

tags: aging

76 likes

#7

“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”
― Yoko Ono

tags: aging, autumn, fall, life, seasons, spring, summer, time, winter

1251 likes

#8

“It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.”
― Theophile Gautier

63 likes

#9

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

8942 likes

#10

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
― James A. Baldwin

tags: love

5442 likes

#11

“It seems to me then as if all the moments of our life occupy the same space, as if future events already existed and were only waiting for us to find our way to them at last, just as when we have accepted an invitation we duly arrive in a certain house at a given time.”
― W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz

tags: time

149 likes

#12

“Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: art, humor

974 likes

#13

“when I am feeling
low
all i have to do is
watch my cats
and my
courage
returns”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: cats, courage, pets, poem, poetry

279 likes

#14

“Arise from sleep, old cat,
And with great yawns and stretchings...
Amble out for love”
― Issa, Japanese Haiku

tags: cats, love, sleepiness

120 likes

#15

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
― Colette

1992 likes

#16

“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
― Studs Terkel

2112 likes

#17

“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”
― John Cheever

tags: books, fiction, inspirational, on-fiction, writing

1266 likes

#18

“Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared,
and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, Nowhere Man

27 likes

#19

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

tags: fact, ignorance, truth

10541 likes

#20

“If you weep not now, when will you ever weep?

E se non piangi, de che pianger suoli?

--Inferno, c. 33 l. 42”
― Dante Alighieri

8 likes

#21

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

40995 likes

#22

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

2739 likes

#23

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

tags: bravery, courage, fear

3217 likes

#24

“Writing means making things large.”
― Christa Wolf

tags: creativity

5 likes

#25

“Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it”
― Nella Larsen

37 likes

#26

“Idealism without consequences is the pathetic dream of every spoiled brat, I suppose.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

93 likes

#27

“Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along. Read one. Shut the book. Read something else. Come back later. Stories can wait.”
― Mavis Gallant, Paris Stories

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#28