Isa > Isa's Quotes

“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

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

“You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway”
― Walt Disney Company

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

He will have plenty of places to choose from. RIP”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.”
― John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
― Anais Nin

“Publicity is like poison. It doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.”
― Joe Paterno

“Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.”
― Yoko Ono

“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”
― Maya Angelou

“We are all broken—that’s how the light gets in.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.”
― Vernon Sanders Law

“The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.”
― Andy Warhol

“This life is but the childhood of our immortality.”
― Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein