DoDo > DoDo's Quotes

Showing 1-28 of 28

like

#1

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

177078 likes

like

#2

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

84859 likes

like

#3

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

tags: hell, individualism, irony, selfishness, tea

3710 likes

like

#4

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: books, castle, self

4145 likes

like

#5

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: writing

2823 likes

like

#6

“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: on-writing

2181 likes

like

#7

“Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

675 likes

like

#8

“What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

184 likes

like

#9

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm

7680 likes

like

#10

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

10946 likes

like

#11

“Big Brother is Watching You.”
― George Orwell, 1984

1383 likes

like

#12

“We want everything, we want to be everything. We want to experience all the joys of good fortune and the full depths of suffering. We want the excitement of action and the calm of observation. We want the silence of the desert as well as the noise of the forum. Simultaneously we want to be the hermit´s thought and the voice of the people; we want to be both melody and harmony. Simultaneously! How could this be possible?”
― Hjalmar Söderberg, Doctor Glas

tags: we-want

13 likes

like

#13

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

tags: fear-of-unknown

2426 likes

like

#14

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: inspirational

8659 likes

like

#15

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: dreams, imagination, psychology

1286 likes

like

#16

“Convictions are prisons.”
― Friedrich Nietzche, The Birth of Tragedy/Seventy-five Aphorisms/The Anti-Christ

tags: convictions, inspirational

97 likes

like

#17

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151416 likes

like

#18

“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
― Italo Calvino

tags: melancholy

1741 likes

like

#19

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

119057 likes

like

#20

“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

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

93523 likes

like

#21

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

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

74333 likes

like

#22

“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: death, life, wordplay

1664 likes

like

#23

“Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful”
― Warren Buffett

tags: fear, greed, investment-advice

383 likes

like

#24

“Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.”
― Warren Buffett

tags: honesty

532 likes

like

#25

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

127111 likes

like

#26

“I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

118 likes

like

#27

“The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

tags: desire, heart, life

89 likes

like

#28

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

tags: comment-of-the-times

2519 likes

All Quotes

Tags From DoDo’s Quotes

attributed-no-source
be-yourself
gilbert-perreira
honesty
inspirational
misattributed-oscar-wilde
quote-investigator
hell
individualism
irony
selfishness
tea
books
castle
self
writing
on-writing
animal-farm
we-want
fear-of-unknown
dreams
imagination
psychology
convictions
humor
melancholy
life
friends
friendship
misattributed-albert-camus
music
philosophy
death
wordplay
fear
greed
investment-advice
love
reality
sleep
desire
heart
comment-of-the-times