Ana > Ana's Quotes

“It was lunacy, this idea, that I could sleep myself into a new life. Preposterous. But there I was, approaching the deaths of my journey”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“With great power comes great need to take a nap, Wake me up later.”
― Nico Di Angelo

“Sometimes plans must change, my love.”
― Molly Knox Ostertag, The Girl from the Sea

“Sometimes you have to let your life get messy. That's how you get to the good parts”
― Molly Ostertag, The Girl from the Sea

“*creepy ghost whispers* morgan...

THAT'S IT SHE'S DEAD”
― Molly Knox Ostertag, The Girl from the Sea

“People, generally, suck.”
― Christopher Moore, The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror

“If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.”
― Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping

“Chaos screaming, chaos dreaming, gotta do more, gotta be more!”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“My past is everything I failed to be.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.”
― Hesiod, Works and Days and Theogony

“That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.”
― Hesiod

“A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it”
― Hesiod, Works and Days

“Agora você sozinho. Nada de medo que você está ficando um homenzinho. Meu”
― José Mauro de Vasconcelos, O Meu Pé de Laranja Lima

“Os anos se passaram, meu caro Manuel Valadares.
Hoje tenho quarenta e oito anos e às vezes na minha saudade eu tenho impressão que continuo criança. Que você a qualquer momento vai me aparecer me trazendo figurinhas de artista de cinema ou mais bolas de gude. Foi você quem me ensinou a ternura da vida, meu Portuga querido. Hoje sou eu que tento distribuir as bolas e as figurinhas, porque a vida sem ternura não é lá grande coisa. Às vezes sou feliz na minha ternura, às vezes me engano, o que é mais comum.
Naquele tempo. No tempo de nosso tempo, eu não sabia que, muitos anos antes, um Príncipe Idiota ajoelhado diante de um altar perguntava aos ícones, com os olhos cheios d'água:
"POR QUE CONTAM COISAS ÀS CRIANCINHAS?"
A verdade, meu querido Portuga, é que a mim contaram as coisas muito cedo.
Adeus!”
― José Mauro de Vasconcelos, شجرتي شجرة البرتقال الرائعة

“- Não faz mal, eu vou matar ele.
- Que é isso menino, matares teu pai?
- Vou, sim. Eu já até que comecei. Matar não quer dizer
a gente pegar o revólver de Buck Jones e fazer bum! Não é isso. A gente mata no coração. Vai deixando de querer bem. E um dia a pessoa morreu.”
― José Mauro de Vasconcelos, شجرتي شجرة البرتقال الرائعة

“Marinheiro, Marinheiro
Marinheiro de amargura
Por tua causa, Marinheiro
Vou baixar à sepultura...

As ondas batiam
E na areia rolavam
Lá se foi o Marinheiro
Que eu tanto amava...

O amor de Marinheiro
É amor de meia hora
O navio levanta o ferro
Marinheiro vai embora...

As ondas batiam...”
― José Mauro de Vasconcelos, شجرتي شجرة البرتقال الرائعة

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, El Principito

“I saw now that the legends were drenched in blood, the blood of women.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“It was like comparing the cold unyielding beauty of the stars to the bloom of a flower, something impermanent and imperfect but all the more lovely for it.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“Los griegos disponen de tres palabras para designar el amor y esa noche las conocimos todas.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“My arrows might fester in a wounded heart, spreading like an infection. Or perhaps love itself had been rotten from the start.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“The Greeks have three words for love. The first is philia, the kind of love that involves liking and grows up between two people who enjoy each other’s company very much. The second is agape, the selfless love of parents for children or between those who are like family to one another. The third is eros, which explains itself—connection, spark, the desire of the body to seek fulfillment in another.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros