Sorina > Sorina 's Quotes

“O vreme, cât o să vă iubiţi, tu ai să uiţi că el a fost strungar şi el are să uite că tu eşti intelectuală. Pe orizontală, se uită multe lucruri. Dar oamenii mai stau şi vertical. Şi n-are să treacă multa vreme, şi-n timp ce el are să uite probabil mai departe că tu eşti intelectuală, tu ai să-ţi aduci aminte tot mai des că el nu este intelectual.”
― Ileana Vulpescu, Arta conversației

“I did not want to think so much about her. I wanted to take her as an unexpected, delightful gift, that had come and would go again — nothing more. I meant not to give room to the thought that it could ever be more. I knew too well that all love has the desire for eternity and that therein lies its eternal torment. Nothing lasts. Nothing.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

“Nedând expresie gândurilor care ţi se îmbulzesc la poarta vorbirii, ele se retrag de la sine şi desoperi cu o mare bucurie că exprimarea lor nu era necesară.”
― Marin Preda, Cel mai iubit dintre pământeni

“I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“Harold believed that beauty was what happened between people, was in a sense the trace of what had happened, so he in truth found her, though minutely creased and puckered and sagging, more beautiful than the unused girl whose ruins she thought of herself as inhabiting. Such generosity of perception returned upon himself; as he lay with Janet, lost in praise, Harold felt as if a glowing tumor of eternal life were consuming the cells of his mortality.”
― John Updike, Couples

“[In regards to colognes:] A third [client] wears a preparation whose molecules are so arranged that they inspire me to want to don the high heels that I never wear except as a sexual indulgence. I haven't asked her the name of her mixture. It might be dangerous.”
― Avodah K. Offit, Night Thoughts: Reflections of a Sex Therapist

“Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart-beats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centring in some long-recognizable deed.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“These religious types were the fans that Jesus seems to have the most trouble with. Fans who will walk into a restaurant and bow their heads to pray before a meal just in case someone is watching. Fans who won’t go to R-rated movies at the theater, but have a number of them saved on their DVR at home. Fans who may feed the hungry and help the needy, and then they make sure they work it into every conversation for the next two weeks. Fans who make sure people see them put in their offering at church, but they haven’t considered reaching out to their neighbor who lost a job and can’t pay the bills. Fans who like seeing other people fail because in their minds it makes them look better. Fans whose primary concern in raising their children is what other people think. Fans who are reading this and assuming I’m describing someone else. Fans who have worn the mask for so long they have fooled even themselves.”
― Kyle Idleman

“Dwight again said: 'Caroline...' but this time as if all the cracks in his heart were widening.”
― Winston Graham, The Black Moon

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

“People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart will “lessen as time passes,” but it isn’t true. Sorrow and loss are constant, but if we all had to go through our whole lives carrying them the whole time, we wouldn’t be able to stand it. The sadness would paralyze us. So in the end we just pack it into bags and find somewhere to leave it.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?”
― Anthony Trollope, The Warden

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“I feel my ability to differentiate what is real from what is not tearing apart at the seams.”
― Nick Roberts, Dead End Tunnel

“We both have some shattered edges,” he whispered. “But maybe God isn’t afraid of our brokenness. I hope he’s not, anyway.”
― Liz Johnson, The Last Way Home

“I am the giant Caraculiambro, lord of the island of Malindrania, vanquished in single combat by the never sufficiently extolled knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, who has commanded me to present myself before your Grace, that your Highness dispose of me at your pleasure’?”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I'm going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“heal the roots, to see the tree grow vibrant.”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“After the fire died down, what remained were two charred hearts, that once beat as one.”
― Anthony Liccione

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”
― Franklin Leonard

“The tree of which we are branches on, makes choices yesterday, by the choices we make today.”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I thought if I chopped off the branches, it’d all be over, but I failed to realise that she left her roots somewhere I didn’t know existed.”
― Rina Kent, Beautiful Venom

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

“The true instigator of social revolution was starvation.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical