Daria > Daria's Quotes

“When I was alive, I believed — as you do — that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said 'one o'clock' as though I could see it, and 'Monday' as though I could find it on the map; and I let myself be hurried along from minute to minute, day to day, year to year, as though I were actually moving from one place to another. Like everyone else, I lived in a house bricked up with seconds and minutes, weekends and New Year's Days, and I never went outside until I died, because there was no other door. Now I know that I could have walked through the walls. (...) You can strike your own time, and start the count anywhere. When you understand that — then any time at all will be the right time for you.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“The short answer to that is 'no.' The long answer is 'fuck no.”
― Stephen Fry

“Just remember you’re not alone here.” I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are.”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
― John Green

“She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”
― William Ernest Henley, Echoes of Life and Death

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren't diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Galápagos

“Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“If I got angry at myself for being angry I would be angry constantly and I wouldn’t have time to think about anything else.) (Wait, I think I am angry constantly. That might explain a lot.)”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me.”
― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

“Books fall open, you fall in.”
― David T.W. McCord

“I don't think all writers are sad, she said. I think it's the other way around- all sad people write.”
― Lang Leav

“We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
― Dante Alighieri

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations