Vincent > Vincent's Quotes

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
― Albert Camus

“The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one.”
― Erwin Schrodinger

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.”
― Albert Camus

“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. —Steve Jobs”
― Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

“I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Inaction is the primary refuge of those who prefer their own constructed realities to the beautiful chaos of the real world.”
― Exurb1a, The Fifth Science

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“In the beginning there was Nothing but Nothing is unstable so Something came about.”
― Exurb1a, The Bridge to Lucy Dunne

“The only rules are the ones dictated by the laws of physics. Everything else is a recommendation.”
― Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

“We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the picture, is that our bodies are in the picture. Our bodies belong to it. Not only my own body, but those of my friends, also of my dog and cat and horse, and of all the other people and animals. And this is my only means of communicating with them.”
― Erwin Schrödinger, 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism'

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

“We tell each other stories in order to live.”
― Joan Didion

“Home is where they want you to stay longer.”
― Stephen King, Revival

“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

“Sometimes the things we believe we hear are really just our own shifting needs.”
― Tiffany McDaniel, The Summer That Melted Everything

“There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.”
― Elizabeth George, Missing Joseph

“My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.”
― Bruno Schulz

“Like a man who pinches himself to make sure he still has feeling, Chimen read to reassure himself that he was still alive.”
― Sasha Abramsky, The House of Twenty Thousand Books

“Life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not.”
― Uncle Iroh

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can't help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year. I feel I know you so well that I couldn't have known you better if we'd been friends for twenty years. You won't fail me, will you? Only two minutes, and you've made me happy forever. Yes, happy. Who knows, perhaps you've reconciled me with myself, resolved all my doubts.

When I woke up it seemed to me that some snatch of a tune I had known for a long time, I had heard somewhere before but had forgotten, a melody of great sweetness, was coming back to me now. It seemed to me that it had been trying to emerge from my soul all my life, and only now-

If and when you fall in love, may you be happy with her. I don't need to wish her anything, for she'll be happy with you. May your sky always be clear, may your dear smile always be bright and happy, and may you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“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 my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath