“You can never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.. until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
- Harper Lee (To Kill A Mocking Bird)
That is part of the beauty of literature. you discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
- F.Scott Fitzgerald
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened”
- Douglas Adams
“You’ll meet her, she’s very pretty, even though sometimes she’s sad for many days at a time. You’ll see, when she smiles, You’ll love her.”
- Pan’s Labyrinth
“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”
-John Green
“Everything is more beautiful
Because were doomed.
You will never be lovelier than you are now.
We will never be here again.”
- Homer (The Iliad)
“I loved her against reason,
against promise,
against peace,
against hope,
against happiness,
against all discouragement that could be.”
- Charles Dickens (Great Expectations)
“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
-Wihelm Stekel
Don’t be polite. Bite in.
Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin. It is ready and rip now, whenever you are. You do not need a knife or fork or spoon or plate or napkin or tablecloth. For there is no core, or stream, or rind, or pit, or seed, or skin, to throw away.
- Eve Merriam (How to Eat a Poem)
“You must give up the life you had planned, in order to have a life that’s waiting for you”
- Jason Campbell
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
- Ernest Hemingway
“I can never read all the books I want; i can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.”
-Sylvia Plath
“it’s never to late to be who you might of been.”
- George Eliot
“Thomas Edison’s last words were ‘It’s very beautiful over there.’ I don’t know where there is, but I believe its somewhere, and I hope it’s beautiful.”
- John Green (Looking for Alaska)
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
- Ernest Hemingway
“What about when someone doesn’t need a shoulder? what if they need the arms?”
- Stephan Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
- J.k Rowling (Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone)
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
- Howard Thurman
“Hell is empty and all the devils live here.”
- William Shakespeare
“Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
-Plato
“Always read something that will make you look good even if you die in the middle of it.”
-P.J O’Rourke
“Her philosophy of life was that might die at any moment. The tragedy, she said, was that she didn’t”
- Fight Club
“She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important.”
- Marilyn Monroe
“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”
- Bob Harris (Lost In Translation)
“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things i’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicious that she wasn’t all she should be. I loved her and that was the beginning of everything.”
- F.Scott Fitzgerald
“I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.”
- John Steinbeck
“That was the thing about words. They were clear and specific: Chair, eye, stone. But when you talked about feelings words became stiff. They were this and not that, they couldn’t include all the meanings. In defining, they always left something out.”
- Janet Finch
“Do you hate people?
I don’t hate them…I just feel better when they’re not around.”
- Charles Bukowski (Barfly)
