Peter Tieryas > Peter's Quotes

“What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”
― Dylan Thomas

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
― Charles Dickens

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“After all the talk about the end of the world the irony was that it actually happened.”
― Michael J. Seidlinger, The Sky Conducting

“A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“I was adrift, tugged and pulled by the gravity of solitude, a festering hunger driving me like a relentless martinet”
― Peter Tieryas Liu, Watering Heaven

“Flaws weren't pariah; foibles were badges of character. Not something to be brushed away in Photoshop.”
― Peter Tieryas Liu, Watering Heaven

“The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .”
― Jorge Amado, Gabriela, clavo y canela

“Doubt is the only reliable source of creativity.”
― Peter Tieryas, Watering Heaven

“Walking on water is easy if you know where to step.”
― Peter Tieryas, Watering Heaven

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“We'd rage a war, sun versus the stars of the earth and duke it out. Not for dominance, but the darkness of anonymity, the billions who sacrificed themselves so that other suns could burn more brightly.”
― Peter Tieryas, Bald New World

“Why assume there is only one type of light that can reveal all the digital layers of reality?”
― Peter Tieryas, Bald New World

“...if a person could discard 99% of their life and experience only the best 1%, would they think life a grand and beautiful thing?”
― Peter Tieryas, Bald New World

“Why don’t people fight for change?” “Because the ones who do get hunted down.”
― Peter Tieryas, United States of Japan

“There’s no ideology, only people. And”
― Peter Tieryas, United States of Japan

“Since we're all snails riding on the razor's edge, we might as well say it as it is.”
― Peter Tieryas, United States of Japan

“Regret is like a mental parasite that alters your behavior.”
― Peter Tieryas, United States of Japan

“There's no ideology, only people.”
― Peter Tieryas, United States of Japan

“That's the way history works. People forget so easily. You start telling yourself a new version of the past, and after a while, it becomes reality.”
― Peter Tieryas, Mecha Samurai Empire