Dave > Dave's Quotes

“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Kitsch is the inability to admit that shit exists”
― Milan Kundera

“Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.”
― Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves

“Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

“If you weren't around, I'd probably be someplace way the hell off. In the woods or some goddamn place. You're the only reason I'm around, practically.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip!”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Just go to bed, now. Quickly. Quickly and slowly.”
― J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

“I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable.”
― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories

“If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.”
― John Dewey

“We were together. I forget the rest.”
― Walt Whitman

“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre