City of Lost Dreams Quotes

“Mark Twain said that, outside of Vienna, all coffee was merely liquid poverty," Sarah commented.”
― Magnus Flyte, City of Lost Dreams

“Prayer. That was what people did when there was nothing else left to do.”
― Magnus Flyte, City of Lost Dreams

“Drug companies do not want us to dream this dream. But many people who are ill reject it as well. The responsibility of being your own cure is too much. Historically, people have been willing to subject themselves to the most poisonous of treatments rather than change themselves. In other words, meditation is hard, but pills are easy, and they feel reassuringly more like science.”
― Magnus Flyte, City of Lost Dreams

“At Harvard, you could tell if a girl would sleep with you by her poster. Modigliani--si. Klimt--no.”
― Magnus Flyte, City of Lost Dreams

“You cannot hear the birds for all the gossip.”
― Magnus Flyte, City of Lost Dreams

“She had also seen the saint’s tomb—a mind-boggling tribute to what the Baroque could do when it got its hands on a shitload of silver—in St. Vitus’s Cathedral.”
― Magnus Flyte, City of Lost Dreams

“Don’t put such stock in this physical body. It’s not what lasts. Love is what matters. You know that. That’s what the visions have shown you, isn’t it? Passion, in all its forms, that’s what endures.”
― Magnus Flyte, City of Lost Dreams

“If you want to make sure something is done correctly, you must do it yourself. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again. A stitch in time saves nine. Twinkle, twinkle little star. Life is but a dream!”
― Magnus Flyte, City of Lost Dreams

“(You think you know suffering? What about life before dishwashers? Washing machines? Tampons? Vacuum cleaners? You have no idea. No idea!)”
― Magnus Flyte, City of Lost Dreams

“We have had enough death. Enough pain. It is time to find room in our hearts for love. Let us drink to love.”
― Magnus Flyte, City of Lost Dreams

“Beethoven had once sneered in a letter that “so long as an Austrian can get his brown ale and his little sausages, he is not likely to revolt.”
― Magnus Flyte, City of Lost Dreams

“We live, we love, we die. Like the distant suns whose explosions sent the elements to the earth that form our bodies, we blaze and then fade, our energy repurposed to other forms. As above, so below.”
― Magnus Flyte, City of Lost Dreams

“Indeed, a convent was a kind of early think tank for women, since it was the preferred choice of intellectuals wanting to escape marriage.”
― Magnus Flyte, City of Lost Dreams

“Geniesse das Leben ständig! Du bist länger tot als lebendig!' {Constantly enjoy life! You're longer dead than alive!}”
― Magnus Flyte, City of Lost Dreams