Ema > Ema's Quotes

“If it entertains you but you will bore someday, it's a distraction. Keep looking.”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

“it is no longer enough to automate information flows about us; the goal now is to automate us.”
― Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

“Would I rather be having this thought now, or would I rather have my peace?”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer

“I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned.
Adult. You have become adult.”
― Harlan Ellison, Paingod and Other Delusions

“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The menu is not the meal.”
― Alan Watts

“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.”
― Sun Tzu

“Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.”
― Lisa Lutz, The Spellmans Strike Again

“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

“Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.”
― Denis Johnson, Jesus' Son

“Sumatra

Sad smo bezbrižni, laki i nežni.
Pomislimo: kako su tihi, snežni
vrhovi Urala.

Rastuži li nas kakav bledi lik,
što ga izgubismo jedno veče,
znamo da, negde, neki potok
mesto njega, rumeno teče!

Po jedna ljubav, jutro, u tuđini,
dušu nam uvija, sve tešnje,
beskrajnim mirom plavih mora,
iz kojih crvene zrna korala,
kao, iz zavičaja, trešnje.

Probudimo se noću i smešimo, drago,
na Mesec sa zapetim lukom.
I milujemo daleka brda
i ledene gore, blago, rukom.”
― Milos Crnjanski

“Ja videh Troju, i videh sve.
More, i obale gde lotos zre,
i vratih se, bled, i sam.
Na Itaki i ja bih da ubijam,
al kad se ne sme,
bar da zapevam
malo nove pesme.”
― Miloš Crnjanski

“It was about how being so fundamentally betrayed often made a person feel deserving of betrayal.”
― Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice

“In any case, there was only one tunnel, dark and lonely, mine, the tunnel in which I had spent my childhood, my youth, my whole life. And in one of those transparent lengths of the stone wall I had seen this girl and had gullibly believed that she was traveling another tunnel parallel to mine, when in reality she belonged to the broad world, to the world without confines of those who do not live in tunnels; and perhaps she had peeped into one of my strange windows out of curiosity and had caught a glimpse of my doomed loneliness, or her fancy had been intrigued by the mute language, the clue of my painting.
And then, while I advanced always along my corridor, she lived her normal life outside, the exciting life of those people who live outside, that strange, absurd life in which there are dances and parties and gaiety and frivolity. And it happened at times that when I walked by one of my windows she was waiting for me, silent and longing (why was she waiting for me? why silent and longing?); but other times she did not get there on time, or she forgot about this poor creature hemmed in, and then I, with my face pressed against the glass wall, could see her in the distance, smiling or dancing carefree, or, what was worse, I could not see her at all and I imagined her in inaccessible or vile places. And then I felt my destiny a far lonelier one than I had imagined.”
― Ernesto Sabato, El túnel

“I sat pondering the idea of the absence of meaning. Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?”
― Ernesto Sábato, El túnel

“Very early in my life it was too late.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

“It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

“Niye bu kadar sıkıyorsun kendini? Yeni tanıştığın birine her şeyini
anlatmaz mısın? Ben karşıma çıkan ilk insana, bütün hayatımı
anlatabilirim.” “Neden?” “Nedeni yok. Yani bence yok. Doktora
sorarsan, manik döneminde olduğu için der ama palavra. Ben her
zaman böyleyim. Bizi samimiyetin hastalık olduğuna inandırmaya
çalışıyorlar. İnanınca, herkes gibi olunca, aptallaşınca iyileşiyoruz…”
― Emrah Serbes, Her Temas İz Bırakır

“nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose”
― Mary Shelley

“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I wish I had done everything on earth with you”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Tavandaki izlerden bir dünya haritası oluşturmaya çalışıyordu.”
― Emrah Serbes, Her Temas İz Bırakır

“It was a weird feeling, this feeling. It was a dead-end feeling, but the
dead-end feeling came from, like, the possibility of eternity”
― Halle Butler, Jillian