Elizabeth > Elizabeth's Quotes

“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.”
― John Keats

“Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“It's no wonder we're all such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it. ”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“What went wrong? Nothing and everything.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“You just have to smile and take it, otherwise it would drive you mad.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
― Anais Nin

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
― Pablo Picasso

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Creativity takes courage. ”
― Henri Matisse

“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Art is the proper task of life. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
― Pablo Picasso

“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
― Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy

“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”
― Nick Hornby

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Play it fuckin' loud!”
― Bob Dylan

“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“The only truth is music.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Americus, Book I