Quotes - Eman (Tehran, Iran) Showing 1-30 of 141

#1

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135487 likes

#2

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

127093 likes

#3

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151328 likes

#4

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

119048 likes

#5

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: paraphrased, strength

34020 likes

#6

“I need, therefore I imagine.”
― Carlos Fuentes

838 likes

#7

“The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

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― Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays

1618 likes

#8

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

148356 likes

#9

“Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of”
― Manuel Puig

41 likes

#10

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

11152 likes

#11

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

4738 likes

#12

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: beauty, wonder, young-at-heart, youth, youthfulness

4047 likes

#13

“Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: love, monogamy, polygamy, sleep

2106 likes

#14

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: goals, success

3872 likes

#15

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
― Milan Kundera

7644 likes

#16

“The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.”
― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories

106 likes

#17

“Did you see more glass?”
― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories

tags: a-perfect-day-for-bananafish

49 likes

#18

“You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.”
― Carlos Fuentes

tags: inspirational

141 likes

#19

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

74325 likes

#20

“The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.”
― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories

686 likes

#21

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: albert-einstein, future, war, wisdom

5151 likes

#22

“Women fake orgasms and men fake finances.”
― Suze Orman

271 likes

#23

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

3936 likes

#24

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

tags: life

8368 likes

#25

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

6986 likes

#26

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

tags: life

9511 likes

#27

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

13095 likes

#28

“if i'm going to fuck up my life, does it really matter which way i do it?.”
― Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls

101 likes

#29

“What kind of fuckery is this?”
― Amy Winehouse

tags: amy-winehouse, fuck, profanity

217 likes

#30

“Well I haven't fucked much with the past,
But I've fucked plenty with the future.

- Babelogue”
― Patti Smith, Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970-2015: Lyrics, Reflections & Notes for the Future

tags: lyrics

389 likes

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