Abir Chowdhury > Abir's Quotes

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“All I need is a sheet of paper
and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world upside down.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.”
― John Ruskin

“And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Poor Folk

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.”
― James Joyce

“I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.”
― James Joyce, Selected Letters of James Joyce

“Will you love me in December as you do in May?”
― Jack Kerouac

“I will not play at tug o' war.
I'd rather play at hug o' war,
Where everyone hugs
Instead of tugs,
Where everyone giggles
And rolls on the rug,
Where everyone kisses,
And everyone grins,
And everyone cuddles,
And everyone wins.”
― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

“The problem with people is that they're only human.”
― Bill Watterson

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
― Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree

“Underneath my outside face
There's a face that none can see.
A little less smiley,
A little less sure,
But a whole lot more like me.”
― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

“So what if nobody came?
I’ll have all the ice cream and tea,
And I’ll laugh with myself,
And I’ll dance with myself,
And I’ll sing, “Happy Birthday to me!”
― Shel Silverstein

“Although I cannot see your face
As you flip these poems awhile,
Somewhere from some far-off place
I hear you laughing--and I smile.”
― Shel Silverstein

“I’ve remained a virgin for you.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.”
― Marcel Duchamp

“...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.”
― Sherman Alexie, Ten Little Indians

“You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.”
― William Faulkner

“why can't you see i'm a kid', said the kid.
Why try to make me like you?
Why are you hurt when I don't cuddle?
Why do you sigh when I splash through a puddle?
Why do you scream when I do what I did?
Im a kid.”
― Shel Silverstein, Falling Up

“And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.”
― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Promise you won't forget me, ever. Not even when I'm a hundred.”
― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

“The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.”
― Albert Camus

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“all day long
wearing a hat
that wasn't on my head”
― jack kerouac