Quotes - Ritinha (Portugal) Showing 1-30 of 110

#1

“Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: anonymous, poetry, woman

#2

“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

tags: humor, scifi

23456 likes

#3

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

7197 likes

#4

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

10960 likes

#5

“What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”
― Edward Albee

1366 likes

#6

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

109342 likes

#7

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: astronomer, science, writer

8070 likes

#8

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

2358 likes

#9

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

93566 likes

#10

“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

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life

14003 likes

#11

“Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.”
― William Wordsworth, The Excursion 1814

846 likes

#12

“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

312 likes

#13

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

4084 likes

#14

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: james-joyce, ulysses

2403 likes

#15

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. ”
― Raymond Chandler

495 likes

#16

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: books, castle, self

4145 likes

#17

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: beauty, wonder, young-at-heart, youth, youthfulness

4052 likes

#18

“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: absurd

2043 likes

#19

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: honesty, truth-telling, writing

5112 likes

#20

“Books are a narcotic.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: books

1218 likes

#21

“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: death, life

2228 likes

#22

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
― Franz Kafka