Quotes - Jay (jacknomiddlenameparker) Showing 1-30 of 35

#1

“His eyes they held the most dangerous thing, they held the top of the sins. Indifference. Indifference. A vacancy where human care should be.”
― Nina MacLaughlin, Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung

tags: apathy, empathy, indifference

5 likes

#2

“There's more than two to a story -- the doers, the done-tos, and the ones who interpret who's who.”
― Nina MacLaughlin, Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung

tags: experiences, interpretation, rumors, stories, tales

7 likes

#3

“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

477 likes

#4

“The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

tags: love

41 likes

#5

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: sin

10932 likes

#6

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde

6037 likes

#7

“I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

526 likes

#8

“Thoughts are divine.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: thoughts

71 likes

#9

“Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: death

93 likes

#10

“I am not a slow learner
I am a quick forgetter
such erasing makes one voracious
if you teach me something beautiful
I will name it quickly before it floats away”
― Kaveh Akbar, Calling a Wolf a Wolf

tags: poetry

41 likes

#11

“The biggest lie is that the fight to address male suffering is separate or at adds with the battle to liberate women. We all experience gender. We are all limited by oppressive gender stereotypes.”
― Liz Plank, For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity

18 likes

#12

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: life

2151 likes

#13

“Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine act of insurrection.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power

62 likes

#14

“People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of change in a world without end.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power

tags: change

45 likes

#15

“Hope just means another world might be possible, not promise, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power

tags: action, hope, possible

38 likes

#16

“Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

338 likes

#17

“I'm not a bit changed--not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real ME--back here--is just the same.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

314 likes

#18

“All things great are wound up with all things little.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

222 likes

#19

“That is one good thing about this world...there are always sure to be more springs.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

tags: anne-of-avonlea, good-things, l-m-montgomery, spring

278 likes

#20

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

8976 likes

#21

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

6457 likes

#22

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
― Ray Bradbury

3674 likes

#23

“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: reality-bothered

2862 likes

#24

“I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

692 likes

#25

“It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: inspirational

503 likes

#26

“And I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

204 likes

#27

“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: inspirational-human-spirit

2631 likes

#28

“Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: love, moon, stars, sun

2404 likes

#29