Eric > Eric's Quotes

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.
I don't know," she said. "Just wait on tables and try to get along." She yawned. I put my hand over her mouth and told her not to yawn. I tried to tell her how excited I was about life and the things we could do together; saying that, and planning to leave Denver in two days. She turned away wearily. We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so sad.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

“Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

“Wenn jemand sagt, das sei Krach, was ich höre, ist mir das egal, Hauptsache, es funktioniert, Hauptsache, es hat die Kraft eines Vulkanausbruchs, Hauptsache, es gibt mir das Gefühl, unbesiegbar und unsterblich zu sein, jung, schön und stark.
Henry Miller hat einmal gesagt, Musik sei der Dosenöffner der Seele, ich bin mir sicher, er würde da meine Lieblingsbands nicht ausschließen, wenn er noch leben würde.
Es gibt ein paar Songs, die begleiten mich seit Jahren, und ich betrachte sie als meine Freunde, ich werde nie überdrüssig, diese Handvoll Songs zu hören, (...). Ich habe jeden einzelnen Ton im Kopf, das ist etwas, das mir niemand nehmen kann, dieser Song ist mir heilig, er ist ein Teil von mir, und wenn ich mich mies fühle, ziehe ich Songs wirklichen Freunden vor, weil sie sich nicht verändern, es scheint mir dann, als ob sie das einzige wären, auf das ich mich verlassen kann. Musik. Musik und Bücher. Aber das passiert mir zum Glück nicht allzuoft, dass ich jegliches Vertrauen in die Menschheit verliere.”
― Selim Özdogan, Es ist so einsam im Sattel, seit das Pferd tot ist

“Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven. ”
― Jimi Hendrix

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. ”
― John Cleese

“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
― Ian Fleming

“Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH...”
― Jack Kerouac

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
― Steve Jobs

“I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.”
― David Bowie

“Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.”
― Oliver Sacks

“Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everybody was, especially me. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and than make the choice to share it with other people. You can't just sit their and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things. I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. And I'm going to figure out what that is. And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn't do or what they didn't know. I don't know. I guess there could always be someone to blame. It's just different. Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Because it's okay to feel things. I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite. I feel infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
― Susan Sontag

“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Stop ruining love by wanting it so bad.”
― Derrick Brown

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“i've forgotten more than you'll ever know”
― bob dylan

“I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so I'm on my way home.”
― Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan - No Direction Home: A Martin Scorsese Picture

“You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.”
― Bob Dylan

“beautiful insane
in the rain”
― Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans

“Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I do not understand the festival experience. These people, these disgusting lowlifes we’re driving through, they fought to get in here. They think they’re lucky. They spent hours on the phone trying to get tickets, happily paying hundreds of pounds for a pair when they managed to find some. Now they’re celebrating being here, celebrating the fact that they can lie around in urine-flavoured mud drinking warm lager and eating burgers prepared by some syphilitic gyppo while fucking Cast knock out their greatest hits in the distance.”
― John Niven, Kill Your Friends

“One thing you'll learn when you're in the business of selling utter shite to the Great British Public is that there's really no bottom to where they'll go. Shit food, shit TV, shit bands, shit films, shit houses. There is absolutely no fucking bottom with this stuff. The shittier you can make it - a bad photocopy of a bad photocopy of what was a shit idea in the first place - the more they'll eat it up with a big fucking spoon, from dawn till dusk, from now until the end of time. It's too good.”
― John Niven, Kill Your Friends