Quotes - Razi (London, H9, The United Kingdom) Showing 1-30 of 116

#1

“Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?”
― Walker Percy, Love in the Ruins

tags: infidelity, men, women

134 likes

#2

“L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

tags: grandness, love, passion, true-love

564 likes

#3

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

8309 likes

#4

“Perhaps if I had made his life more difficult, he would have written less, or less freely. I cannot claim to be the midwife to genius, but if I have not facilitated,I have at least not, as many women might have done, prevented. This is a very small virtue to claim, a very negative achievement to hang my whole life on.”
― Byatt A. S., Possession

tags: domestic-bliss, genius, wifely-duty

6 likes

#5

“God forgive me, I was sorry to hear that Sir W Pens maid Betty was gone away yesterday, for I was in hopes to have had a bout with her before she had gone, she being very pretty. I have also a mind to my own wench, but I dare not, for fear she should prove honest and refuse and then tell my wife.”
― Samuel Pepys

5 likes

#6

“You can get all A's and still flunk life.”
― Walker Percy, The Second Coming

tags: life

440 likes

#7

“Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.”
― Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

111 likes

#8

“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
― Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise

tags: life, life-lessons

2978 likes

#9

“...besides which Lucille would
never understand me because I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

tags: confusion-and-attitude

4 likes

#11

“At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything.”
― Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts / A Cool Million

25 likes

#12

“Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

tags: finnegans, hoyce, humor, wake

48 likes

#13

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad

11470 likes

#14

“She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost”
― Eleanor Catton, The Rehearsal

tags: loners, outsiders, school, teenage-girls, teenagers

65 likes

#15

“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

2188 likes

#16

“Quién soy en esta ciudad muerta?...No entiendo sino las cenizas.”
― Pablo Neruda

12 likes

#17

“My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?”
― Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

tags: russian-literature

137 likes

#18

“They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

17 likes

#19

“This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom.

Sometimes he awoke in the morning and felt nothing; his soul leaped, for he thought he was free; he loved no longer; but in a little while, as he grew wide awake, the pain settled in his heart, and he knew that he was not cured yet.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

tags: love

109 likes

#20

“In schools the rather stupid boys who work always do better than the clever boy who's idle, but when the clever boy works – why then, he does what you've done this term.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

5 likes

#21

“The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

tags: love

1551 likes

#22

“One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

tags: life, love, marriage, women

315 likes

#23

“Quand le monde sera réduit en un seul bois noir pour nos quatre yeux étonnés, - en une plage pour deux enfants fidèles, - en une maison musicale pour notre claire sympathie, - je vous trouverai.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, Les Illuminations

20 likes

#24

“Peut-on s'extasier dans la destruction, se rajeunir par la cruauté !”
― Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations

6 likes

#25

“The Beautiful is always strange.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: art, beautiful, strange

81 likes

#26

“The simple answer as to why we get fat is that carbohydrates make us so; protein and fat do not”
― Gary Taubes, Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

tags: carbohydrates, fat, obesity, sugar, sugar-addiction

16 likes

#27

“I believe in God and the whole business but I love women best, music and science next, whiskey next, God fourth, and my fellowman hardly at all.”
― Walker Percy, Love in the Ruins

13 likes

#28

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

7964 likes

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