Quotes - Livy (The United States) Showing 1-30 of 269

#1

“Lets face it, you did steal me. But you saved my life too. And somewhere in the middle, you showed me a place so different and beautiful, I can never get it out of my mind. And I can't get you out of there either. You're stuck in my brain like my own blood vessels.”
― Lucy Christopher, Stolen

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#2

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: humans, pain, scars

18074 likes

#3

“Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: cancer, death, illness

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#4

“That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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#5

“You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: beauty

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#6

“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
― Louis Adamic

1795 likes

#7

“I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

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#8

“There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.”
― T.S. Eliot.

tags: illusion, life, time

693 likes

#9

“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: apocalypse, despair, poetry

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#10

“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

tags: loneliness, mermaid, observation, singing

405 likes

#11

“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
― T.S. Eliot

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#12

“Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

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#13

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi

16585 likes

#14

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: dreams, truth

957 likes

#15

“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: creativity, education, freedom

116 likes

#16

“To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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#17

“What is hell? Hell is oneself.
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from
And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: hell, loneliness

844 likes

#18

“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.”
― John Keats

tags: depression, desolation, sadness

766 likes

#19

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude

11817 likes

#20

“The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.”
― Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November

1196 likes

#21

“I seem to myself, as in a dream,
An accidental guest in this dreadful body.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

tags: embodiment, illness

288 likes

#22

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: inspirational

8591 likes

#23

“Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.”
― Thor Heyerdahl

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#24

“The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .”
― Jorge Amado, Gabriela, clavo y canela

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#25

“How we need another soul to cling to.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: amity, companionship, loneliness

1948 likes

#26

“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.”
― Markus Zusak

tags: book

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#27