Maria > Maria's Quotes

“We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love”
― Madame De Stael

“You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.”
― Jonathan Carroll, Outside the Dog Museum

“My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

“I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.”
― Marty Feldman

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“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

“Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
― Brian Jacques, Redwall

“You will find joy, frustration and sorrow in your quest. Never forget that friendship and loyalty are more precious than riches...Happiness can be brief, but it knows no time in the land of dreams.”
― Brian Jacques, Pearls of Lutra

“Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.”
― Brian Jacques

“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
― John Green

“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“A pior parte de alguém morrer é as saudades e o sentimento de perda que deixa nos outros”
― Maria Capitão

“Só quando alguém teu conhecido morre é que começas a apreciar a vida e o que ela significa”
― Maria Capitão

“Como poderia ter explicado o facto de amar tanto Maria que não suportava viver sem ela? Que uma simples referência do seu nome fazia pulsar tanto o seu coralão que parecia que ia saltar-lhe do peito?”
― Maria Capitão, A História de Diablocity

“Sabes o que tens? Medo. Muito medo. Medo de mudar a tradição. Medo de mudar. Medo de entrares numa nova aventura sem saberes se resultará bem ou mal. Medo de dar um passo em falso. Já estás tão habituado que as coisas sejam assim, que te façam a papinha toda, que não consegues lutar. Nem mesmo pela pessoa que amas. Preferes continuar assim e vir a arrepender-te. A maior parte das pessoas são como tu. Já estão tão habituados à vida tal como está, que não fazem nada. Continuam assim, e depois todos perdem. Não és só tu quem perderá.”
― Maria Capitão

“A partir do momento em que alguém especial para ti morre, passas a pensar em todos os momentos que passaste com ela e a desejar ter-lhe dito mais vezes o que ela significava ou ter passado mais tempo com essa pessoa. Mas já não vale a pena, ela já foi”
― Maria Capitão

“God made me blind and unable to walk. Big deal!”
― Patrick Henry Hughes

“Things work out the way they're meant to”
― Danielle Steel, No Greater Love

“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.”
― Edward P. Morgan

“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
― Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love | Guitar TAB Sheet Music Collection | Note-for-Note Transcriptions for Electric Guitar Players | Classic Psychedelic Rock Solos

“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

“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“Yes," he said. "You were strong. You were brave. You were good. You mattered.”
― Katherine Alice Applegate, The Beginning

“I live well with very little things but not without my dignity”
― Rui M.

“The straight path must sometimes be crooked. ”
― Carole Wilkinson, Dragon Keeper

“It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.”
― Carole Wilkinson, Dragon Keeper

“But—”
“But what? You love him, and he loves you, and you live in the most romantic city in the world.”
I shake my head. “It’s not that simple.”
“Then let me put it another way. A gorgeous boy is in love with you, and you’re not even gonna try to make it work?”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.”
― José Saramago, Blindness