Boysie Freeman (not my real name, it's just my Internet name) > Boysie Freeman's Quotes

“Si tu ne m'aimes pas, je t'aime
si je t'aime, prends garde à toi!”
― Mérimée Prosper 1803-1870 Prosper, Carmen

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”
― Oscar Wilde

“What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

“The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“When God created us, did he actually intend to make us so ugly?”
― Bo Yang, The Ugly Chinaman and the Crisis of Chinese Culture

“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.”
― Théophile Gautier

“I do not want your admiration now, because I do not want your insults in the future. I bear with my loneliness now, in order to avoid greater loneliness in the years ahead. You see, loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

“The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
― Oscar Wilde

“And only after he said it did he realize that among the countless suicides he could remember, this was the first with cyanide that had not been caused by the sufferings of love. Then something changed in the tone of his voice.“And when you do find one, observe with care,” he said to the intern:“they almost always have crystals in their heart.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
― Andre Gide

“The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”
― Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice

“The dead are noble, the living worthless.”
― Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt, Sandalwood Death

“All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?”
― Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!

Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.

Some love too little, some too long,
Some sell and others buy;
Some do the deed with many tears,
And some without a sigh:
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die.”
― Oscar Wilde, Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde including the Ballad of Reading Gaol

“Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Dry