André > André's Quotes

“All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.”
― Warsan Shire

“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
― Franz Kafka

“If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.”
― Fernando Pessoa , The Book of Disquiet

“The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

“My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
― Warsan Shire

“I’m losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”
― Haruki Murakami

“In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with thoughts and feelings - where we can experience healthy psychological autonomy and can choose to share when we want to. Keeping secrets is usually about power, about hiding and concealing information.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions