Bogdan Cernoscky > Bogdan's Quotes

“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Songs are as sad as the listener.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“People should fall in love with their eyes closed.”
― Andy Warhol

“Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, distinctly heard the voice of Jesus telling him to kill women, and he was locked up for life. George W. Bush says that God told him to invade Iraq (a pity God didn't vouchsafe him a revelation that there were no weapons of mass destruction).”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“The light of morning decomposes everything.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“You think it’s because they’re lying? Nonsense! I like it when people lie! Lying is man’s only privilege over all other organisms. If you lie--you get to the truth! Lying is what makes me a man. Not one truth has ever been reached without first lying fourteen times or so, maybe a hundred and fourteen, and that’s honorable in its way; well, but we can’t even lie with our own minds! Lie to me, but in your own way, and I’ll kiss you for it. Lying in one’s own way is almost better than telling the truth in someone else’s way; in the first case you’re a man, and in the second—no better than a bird! The truth won’t go away, but life can be nailed shut; there are examples. Well, so where are we all now? With regard to science, development, thought, invention, ideals, aspirations, liberalism, reason, experience, and everything, everything, everything, we’re all, without exception, still sitting in the first grade! We like getting by on other people’s reason--we’ve acquired a taste for it! Right? Am I right?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.”
― Erik Satie

“There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I’m after. I don’t know what my strengths are or what I’m supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared I can only think about myself. I become really self-centered, and without meaning to, I hurt people. So I’m not such a wonderful human being.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

“My favorite journey is looking out the window.”
― Edward Gorey

“from my chair i can see the street and it seems depressing”
― Brandon Scott Gorrell

“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

“My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?”
― Charles M. Schulz

“ah, you always go for the ones who don't really want you”
― Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans

“Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

“Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.”
― Anthony Burgess

“Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.”
― Oscar Wilde

“De obicei, nu-mi plac oamenii trişti; cu atât mai puţin femeile triste. Cei mai mulţi dintre noi suferim de tristeţi umilitoare, de ordin biologic sau psihologic. Suntem trişti, pentru că am ratat o afacere, pentru că nu ne funcţioneaza ficatul sau pentru că am pierdut o noapte la chef sau bibliotecă. Iar cu femeile e şi mai penibil. E ceva de duzină în cele mai multe tristeţi feminine.”
― Mircea Eliade Nuntă în cer

“Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

“Is anyone anywhere happy?”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.”
― Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard

“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.”
― Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door”
― Milton Berle

“The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way.”
― Heraclitus

“my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity