E.T. > E.T.'s Quotes

“There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone goes, 'Oh, that's a bit heavy,' or 'Eew, disgusting.' And literature is a place where that stuff goes; where people whisper to each other across books, the writer to the reader. I think that stops you feeling lonely – in the deeper sense, lonely.”
― Alain de Botton

“Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
(Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”
― Voltaire

“Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
― Albert Camus

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

“One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.”
― Oscar Wilde

“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.”
― Carl Sagan

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolucionary act.”
― George Orwell

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.”
― Dany Laferrière, I Am a Japanese Writer: A Novel

“Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.”
― Ann Brashares, Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

“After riding like a moron all over the place, observe the face of an Indian when he crashes. He is stunned.”
― Manu Joseph, Serious Men

“He was wearing a blue tracksuit that had a white tick mark embroidered at the hip, as if he approved of something.”
― Manu Joseph, Serious Men

“The wolves of the world have no pity for the confused, the scattered, the lost or the weak.”
― T.K. Naliaka, In Time of Peril

“I would propose that every woman has a little darkness under the surface,”
― Keigo Higashino, Journey Under the Midnight Sun

“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“Honestly.I don't understand Zen.It seems if you don't answer properly,or if you are rude,people get enlightened.”
― Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom

“I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people who sat down and wrote and wrote and wrote and there were other people who devoted their lives to making those words into books. It was lovely. Like standing in the middle of civilization.”
― Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom

“Men do things. We can't help it. That's all there is to it. As you will discover in time, the primary choice every man has to make is whether he wants to be himself or if he wants peace.”
― Manu Joseph, The Illicit Happiness of Other People

“Our little satellite reached Mars because it was called MOM. If it was called DAD, it would still be circling the Earth, lost, but not willing to ask for directions.”
― Twinkle Khanna, Mrs Funnybones: She's just like You and a lot like Me

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

“Love is being stupid together.”
― Paul Valery

“Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”
― Lord Alfred Tennyson

“God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.”
― Paul Valéry

“I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.”
― Angela Carter