Rowen > Rowen's Quotes

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“thus with a kiss I die”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
― Anais Nin

“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
― Anaïs Nin

“I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don’t mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding.”
― Anaïs Nin

“What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.”
― Anais Nin, Henry & June

“Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Right on the edge of fear was where trust could grow.”
― Cherise Sinclair, Breaking Free

“I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?”
― Margaret Cho

“Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy.”
― Björk

“I want to be the victim of his errors.”
― Marquis de Sade

“Of all creatures that can feel and think,
we women are the worst treated things alive”
― Euripides, Medea

“Privilege,” she said gently, “gives the crown its shine. Duty gives it its weight.”
― Grace Draven, Eidolon

“When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.”
― Ginger Talbot, 30 Days of Pain

“I sink. I fall. I die, and I am reborn a thousand and one times in his arms, and the sensation never seems to end.”
― Frankie Rose, Black Moon Rising

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“My body is a dead language and you pronounce each word perfectly.”
― Sierra DeMulder

“but what is genius if not madness? Mental illness is a common euphemism for evil.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Born, Madly

“He could tell me he loved me, but he doesn't know me the way a lover would; he knows the shape of me, though, the curve of my heart, as I know his. He could tell me he doesn't want to lose me, but we're both already lost, and only the tether between us keeps us from drifting out into the black.”
― Amie Kaufman, This Shattered World

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

“When love is not madness it is not love.”
― Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation