2026 Reading Challenge

Janine > Janine's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 187
« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Mark Helprin
    “And how does God speak to you?"
    "In the language of everything that is beautiful.”
    ― Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War
    40 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Imitation is suicide.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: be-yourself, creativity, life
    167 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Mark Helprin
    “...to be paid for one's joy is to steal.”
    ― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
    33 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Saul Bellow
    “Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
    ― Saul Bellow, Herzog
    tags: life
    2110 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Mark Helprin
    “Guariglia went to his children, who were playing by the brazier. "Look at them," he said. "I know they may not be as beautiful to you as they are to me..."
    "They are," Alessandro interrupted.
    "No," Guariglia insisted, "they're not beautiful in that way, but to me, Alessandro, they are all that is good and holy. I didn't know God until I saw them. It's funny, as soon as you lose faith, you have children, and life reawakens.”
    ― Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War
    7 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Shel Silverstein
    “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
    ― Shel Silverstein
    tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t
    22591 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Jack Kerouac
    “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad
    11472 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Charles Baxter
    “A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen.”
    ― Charles Baxter
    10 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Albert Schweitzer
    “Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
    ― Albert Schweitzer
    tags: compassion, ethics, peace, vegetarianism
    777 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    84855 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
    17365 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
    tags: identity, opinions
    11873 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
    ― oscar wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source
    7823 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Colum McCann
    “You can count the dead, but you can't count the cost. We've got no math for Heaven...”
    ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
    16 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Susan Polis Schutz
    “Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...”
    ― susan polis schutz
    tags: dance, flowers, happiness, happy, joy, summer, sun, wild
    990 likes

    • like
  • #16
    John Green
    “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: humans, pain, scars
    18081 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Dante Alighieri
    “Do not be afraid; our fate
    Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, Inferno
    tags: faith, fate, fear
    3289 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Dante Alighieri
    “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
    ― Dante Alighieri
    tags: afterlife, attributed-no-source, hell, morality, neutrality
    2201 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Dante Alighieri
    “The path to paradise begins in hell.”
    ― Dante Alighieri
    tags: heaven, hell, paradise
    1200 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Dante Alighieri
    “He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.”
    ― Dante Alighieri
    tags: help, kindness
    377 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Dante Alighieri
    “Love, that moves the sun and the other stars”
    ― Dante Alighieri, Paradise
    tags: italian-medieval-poetry, love, sun
    281 likes

    • like
  • #22
    “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
    ― Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus
    tags: poetry
    3574 likes

    • like
  • #23
    T.S. Eliot
    “This is the way the world ends
    Not with a bang but a whimper.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: apocalypse, despair, poetry
    3277 likes

    • like
  • #24
    T.S. Eliot
    “Do I dare
    Disturb the universe?
    In a minute there is time
    For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: life, poetry
    2047 likes

    • like
  • #25
    T.S. Eliot
    “Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: evil, good-intentions, morality
    1054 likes

    • like
  • #26
    T.S. Eliot
    “If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: challenges, coping, thought-for-the-day
    735 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Edith Wharton
    “She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.”
    ― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
    tags: drama
    235 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Mark Helprin
    “There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.”
    ― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
    tags: justice, mystery, philosophical
    8 likes

    • like
  • #29
    Mark Helprin
    “A horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.”
    ― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
    10 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Ellen Goodman
    “There’s a trick to the 'graceful exit.' It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over — and let it go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives. It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit line is an entry, that we are moving up, rather than out.”
    ― Ellen Goodman
    tags: closure, endings
    330 likes



Rss
« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7
All Quotes



Tags From Janine’s Quotes

be-yourself
creativity
life
anything-can-be
hope
impossible
inspirational
musn-t
possibilities
shouldn-t
won-t
freethinker
mad
compassion
ethics
peace
vegetarianism
truth
identity
opinions
attributed-no-source
dance
flowers
happiness
happy
joy
summer
sun
wild
humans
pain
scars
faith
fate
fear
afterlife
hell
morality
neutrality
heaven
paradise
help
kindness
italian-medieval-poetry
love
poetry
apocalypse
despair
evil
good-intentions
challenges
coping
thought-for-the-day
drama
justice
mystery
philosophical
closure
endings