Trev > Trev's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 52
« previous 1
sort by

  • #1
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

  • #2
    Thomas Pynchon
    “A screaming comes across the sky.”
    Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

  • #3
    Thomas Pynchon
    “All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.”
    Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

  • #4
    Thomas Pynchon
    “You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.”
    Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

  • #5
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #6
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #7
    Clarice Lispector
    “The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.”
    Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

  • #8
    Clarice Lispector
    “I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms.”
    Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

  • #9
    Cormac McCarthy
    “The point is there ain't no point.”
    Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

  • #10
    Cormac McCarthy
    “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
    Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

  • #11
    William S. Burroughs
    “You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative”
    William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

  • #12
    William S. Burroughs
    “The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.”
    William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

  • #13
    Marcel Proust
    “the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation”
    Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

  • #14
    Virginia Woolf
    “I am not one and simple, but complex and many.”
    Virginia Woolf, The Waves

  • #15
    Virginia Woolf
    “The moment was all; the moment was enough.”
    Virginia Woolf, The Waves

  • #16
    Jean Baudrillard
    “We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
    Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

  • #17
    Bertrand Russell
    “Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?”
    Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

  • #18
    Bertrand Russell
    “Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.”
    Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

  • #19
    Thomas Pynchon
    “If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
    Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

  • #20
    Thomas Pynchon
    “Everything is some kind of a plot, man.”
    Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

  • #21
    Thomas Pynchon
    “A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.”
    Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

  • #22
    Thomas Pynchon
    “Don't forget the real business of the war is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals.”
    Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

  • #23
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
    Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

  • #24
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
    Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

  • #25
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
    Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

  • #26
    James Joyce
    “The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.”
    James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  • #27
    James Joyce
    “You can still die when the sun is shining.”
    James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  • #28
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

  • #29
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

  • #30
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Grief is the stuff of life. A life without grief is no life at all. But regret is a prison. Some part of you which you deeply value lies forever impaled at a crossroads you can no longer find and never forget.”
    Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger



Rss
« previous 1