Gabriela > Gabriela's Quotes

“Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go--if there are no doors or windows--he walks through a wall.”
― Bernard Malamud

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

“I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.”
― Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines

“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
― Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant

“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
― William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

“Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best, while you have it, use your breath;
There is no drinking after death.”
― Ben Jonson

“I bid the chords sweet music make,
And all must follow in my wake.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

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

“It isn't ever delicate to live.”
― Kay Ryan

“My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

“Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?”
― J.M. Coetzee

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”
― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

“And when I asked you how you’d been, I meant I missed you more than I’ve ever missed anything before.”
― Iain Thomas

“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
― Rob Reiner

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening