Elda > Elda's Quotes

“It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

“That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

“It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

“It's no shame to be born stupid. Only to die stupid.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

“Then when I am sad and understand nothing anymore, I say to myself that it's better to die while you still want to live, than to die and want to die.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

“Ligh doesn't shine in the light; it shines in the dark.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

“A man is courageous
only when he is also afraid.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

“Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!”
― Erich Maria Remarque, The Night in Lisbon

“What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!”
― Erich Maria Remarque, The Night in Lisbon

“He felt as though the bones of his ribcage were snapping beneath the weight of the stone that God had laid over his heart.”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“He who lives an immoral life dies an immoral death. —Corsican proverb”
― Daniel Silva, The English Girl

“You see, Allon, in the art world, perception is reality. - General Cesare Ferrari”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“Gabriel was remarried, a father, and the chief of the Office. The restorer was restored.”
― Daniel Silva, The Black Widow

“I, however, am a source of unvarnished truth, even when it hurts. – Oliver Dimbleby”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“In the online age, it was more important to live out loud than to live with dignity.”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“IT SEEMS DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE, but there was once a time when human beings did not feel the need to share their every waking moment with hundreds of millions, even billions, of complete and utter strangers. If one went to a shopping mall to purchase an article of clothing, one did not post minute-by-minute details on a social networking site; and if one made a fool of oneself at a party, one did not leave a photographic record of the sorry episode in a digital scrapbook that would survive for all eternity. But now, in the era of lost inhibition, it seemed no detail of life was too mundane or humiliating to share. In the online age, it was more important to live out loud than to live with dignity. Internet followers were more treasured than flesh-and-blood friends, for they held the illusive promise of celebrity, even immortality. Were Descartes alive today, he might have written: I tweet, therefore I am.”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“He looked older, harder, perhaps wiser. The Middle East was like that. It turned hope to despair, idealists into Machiavellians.”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“BLOOD NEVER SLEEPS.”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“We all choose the life we lead. – Christopher Keller”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“Barak, the Hebrew word for lightning,”
― Daniel Silva, The Black Widow

“She named the child Gabriel, the messenger of God, the defender of Israel, the interpreter of Daniel’s visions.”
― Daniel Silva

“Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?”
― Leon Uris, Exodus

“And that is where I have failed you, Ari. You see, I would have crawled to your mother a million times. I would crawl to her because I need her in order to live. She is my strength. God help me, Ari, I have been a party to the creation of a breed of men and women so hard they refuse to know the meaning of tears and humility.”
― Leon Uris, Exodus

“Shoshanna, the first kibbutz in Palestine, seemed to be the long-awaited answer for Zionism.”
― Leon Uris, Exodus

“And one day a great thing happened. Dov Landau smiled again.”
― Leon Uris, Exodus and QB VII

“Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

“I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

“I've not much interest in the important things of life. Only in the beautiful things. Just this lilac here makes me happy.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment