Marius > Marius's Quotes

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Arta lecturii, aşadar, e în bună parte arta recititului.”
― Mircea Eliade, 50 de conferinţe radiofonice 1932-38

“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“The truth isn't so simple. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose.”
― Hillary Jordan, Mudbound

“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
― Anton Chekhov

“Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.”
― Anton Chekhov

“What is realized in the novel is the process of coming to know one's own language as it is perceived in someone else's language, coming to know one's own belief system in someone else's system.”
― Mikhail Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays

“My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.”
― Dylan Thomas

“Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.”
― Dylan Thomas

“Nothing was certain, but everything was safe - that was part of the mystery of Love.”
― Charles Williams, The Greater Trumps

“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”
― Euripides

“There is a point in every philosophy at which the "conviction" of the philosopher appears on the scene; or, to put it in the words of an ancient mystery: adventavit asinus, / pulcher et fortissimus. (Translation: The ass arrives, beautiful and most brave.)”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“I miss you more than I remember you.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous