Yasmina > Yasmina's Quotes

“La depresión no es algo de lo que uno se quita. No puedes desengancharte de la depresión. Depresión es como un moretón que nunca se te quita. Un moretón en la mente. Tienes que tener mucho cuidado de no tocarte donde duele. Pero está siempre ahí”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.”
― Douglas Coupland, Life After God

“We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?”
― David Foster Wallace

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Y al fin el octavo día llegó. La vaca había dejado de dar leche para el resto del año, y Bathsheba Everdene no volvería a subir la colina. Gabriel había alcanzado un punto en su existencia que jamás habría podido imaginar poco antes. Disfrutaba diciendo « Bathsheba» en privado, en lugar de silbar; y empezó a gustarle más el pelo negro, pese a que desde niño se había jurado fiel al castaño, distanciándose de los demás hasta ocupar a sus ojos un espacio insignificante. El amor es una fuerza posible que nace de una debilidad real.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“A menudo las bromas y el sarcasmo eran la botella en la que los depresivos clínicos enviaban sus aullidos más estridentes en busca de alguien que los cuidara y ayudara.”
― David Foster Wallace

“We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“You know how sometimes after an afternoon nap you wake up with the shakes or anxiety? That's what happened to me. I couldn't remember who I was or where I was or what time of year it was or anything. All I knew was that I was. I felt so wide open, so vulnerable, like a great big field that's just been harvested.”
― Douglas Coupland

“Irony, entertaining as it is, serves an almost exclusively negative function. It's critical and destructive, a ground-clearing”
― David Foster Wallace

“Los ingenieros del agua dejaron el calentador de la piscina en marcha demasiado tiempo y, por la noche, los vapores de cloro se elevaron por encima de la vida vegetal del planeta, y yo imaginé mi carne en el interior de la piscina, cálida, protegida, sintiendo la gravedad, pero capaz al mismo tiempo de burlarla flotando. ¿Flotarías conmigo ahora, si te lo pidiera, saltarías a la piscina, sin desnudarte siquiera? ¿Podría desnudarte dentro, quitarte la ropa y hundirnos juntos en el agua?”
― Douglas Coupland, Microserfs

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Algunas veces, durante un momento fugaz, creía vislumbrar una mirada, oír un tono de voz, ver una forma que anunciaba la realización de mi sueño, pero me desengañaba cada vez. No debes suponer que anhelaba la perfección, ni de intelecto ni de físico. Sólo anhelaba lo que fuera compatible conmigo.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
― Charles Dickens

“Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since – on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made, are not more real, or more impossible to displace with your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation I associate you only with the good, and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. O God bless you, God forgive you!”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“What end but love, that stares death in the eye?

Sing me a song to make death tolerable, a song
of a man and a woman: the riddle of a man
and a woman.”
― Joseph N. Riddel

“– Es una suerte poder desdeñar a alguien cuando la mayoría de nosotras se contenta con decir «¡Gracias!». Es como si lo oyera: «No, señor… valgo más que usted» o «Béseme los pies; mi cara es sólo para bocas importantes».”
― Thomas Hardy

“Es tarde. Hay baloncesto en la tele; revistas de ordenador y fitness por todas partes.
Quiero hablar del amor.

¿Se acuerda alguien de esa vieja serie El superagente 86? ¿Del principio, cuando Maxwell Smart recorre el pasillo secreto y hay toda una serie de puertas y rejas que se van abriendo lateral y verticalmente? Creo que todo el mundo tiene un montón de puertas como ésas entre ellos y el mundo; pero, cuando estás enamorado, todas tus puertas están abiertas y todas las puertas del otro están abiertas. Y puedes patinar con tu pareja a lo largo de todo el pasillo.”
― Douglas Coupland, Microserfs

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.”
― Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

“To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
― Jane Austen

“I've been thinking about this so much. When I say time I mean history, or... I think it's human to confuse history with time.”
“That's for sure.”
“No, listen. Other animals don't have time – they're simply part of the universe. But people– we get time and history. What if the world had continued on? Try to imagine a Nobel Peace Prize winner of the year 3056, or postage stamps with spatulas on them because we ran out of anything else to put on stamps. Imagine the Miss Universe winner in the year 22,788. You can't Your brain can't do it. And now there are'nt any people. Without people, the universe is simply the universe. Time doesn't matter.”
― Douglas Coupland, Girlfriend in a Coma

“Yo era una chica del montón, y ésa era la mayor decepción de todas: no había en mí ningún destello de grandeza. No era tan guapa como para sacar aquellas notas; la balanza no se inclinaba con suficiente decisión del lado de la belleza o del de la inteligencia.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

“Nos empeñábamos en difuminar los bordes toscos y decepcionantes de los chicos para darles la forma de alguien a quien pudiéramos amar.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

“Por aquel entonces, yo estaba siempre pendiente de la atención de los demás. Me vestía para generar amor, me bajaba un poco el escote, adoptaba una mirada melancólica cuando me mostraba en público, una mirada que insinuaba muchos pensamientos profundos y prometedores, por si acaso a alguien le daba por echar un vistazo.

[…]

Todo el tiempo que había dedicado a prepararme, esos artículos que enseñaban que la vida no era más que una sala de espera, hasta que alguien se fijara en ti… Los chicos habían dedicado ese tiempo a convertirse en ellos mismos.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

“Una agrupación de robles y rocas podía, cuando la veía por el rabillo del ojo, desatar algo en mi pecho, las palmas de las manos resbalosas de adrenalina.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls