Annie > Annie's Quotes

“«-Εγώ την τρέλα μου την φοράω καπέλο, μεγάλε. Δεν την αφήνω να μου γίνει θηλιά. Κι όσο για την παράγκα μου, μόλις δω πως πιάνει κοριούς, ανάβω ένα σπίρτο και την καίω. Δεν το ‘χω για τίποτα. ‘’Πόσο κάνει;’’ Λέω στη μοίρα μου. Τι χρωστάω; Τόσο… Μου λέει. Παρ’ τα και δίνε του. Έχω ένα ραντεβουδάκι με την επόμενη μέρα…»”
― Alkyoni Papadaki

“Χαρά σ' αυτούς που πιάστηκαν στο δόλωμα της ζωής και σπαρτάρισαν μέσα στα δίχτυα της.
Αν τα τρύπησαν μια στιγμή και ξαναβγήκαν στο πέλαγος, το 'καναν μόνο και μόνο για να 'χουν τη χαρά να ξαναπιαστούν...”
― Alkyoni Papadaki

“Όταν έπρεπε να κόψω όλους τους άγριους θάμνους να ελευθερωθεί το τοπίο, δεν το 'κανα. Λυπήθηκα τα φίδια, που δεν θα είχαν άλλες φωλιές για να κρυφτούν. Όταν έπρεπε να φυλάξω λίγο νερό, για ώρα ανάγκης, δεν το 'κανα. Λυπήθηκα τ' αδέσποτα, που διψούσαν.”
― Alkyoni Papadaki, Το ταξίδι που λέγαμε...

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
― Charles Bukowski

“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than too late”
― Charles Bukowski

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

“I have named you queen.
There are taller than you, taller.
There are purer than you, purer.
There are lovelier than you, lovelier.
But you are the queen.

When you go through the streets
No one recognizes you.
No one sees your crystal crown, no one looks
At the carpet of red gold
That you tread as you pass,
The nonexistent carpet.

And when you appear
All the rivers sound
In my body, bells
Shake the sky,
And a hymn fills the world.

Only you and I,
Only you and I, my love,
Listen to it.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love Poems

“‎"she’ mad but she’
magic. there’ no lie in her fire.”
― Charles Bukowski

“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”
― Albert Einstein

“I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn’t really care.”
― Jean Rhys, Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography

“I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.”
― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

“There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.”
― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

“Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes.”
― Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark

“A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.”
― Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

“Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad...”
― Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight