Clara > Clara's Quotes

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
― Charles Dickens

“Without literature, life is hell.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.”
― Witold Gombrowicz

“All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”
― Harold Bloom

“All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.”
― Franz Kafka

“It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything,”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Most people go through their whole lives, without ever really feeling that close with anyone.”
― Sally Rooney , Normal People

“the pleasure of being touched by great art’.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“He brought her goodness like a gift and now it belongs to her.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
― Franz Kafka

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“Are people so unhappy when they love?"
"Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“Does he love you so much?" "He would commit murder for me.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me. She loves me forever.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“I am the little boy who went into the sea to rescue your scarf”
― gaston leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“He loved her so much that it almost took his breath away.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“Music has the power to make one forget everything save those sounds that touch your heart.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I did crave attention, but I refused to humiliate myself by asking for it.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Oh, sleep. Nothing else could ever bring me such pleasure, such freedom, the power to feel and move and think and imagine, safe from the miseries of my waking consciousness.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“it was better to be alone than to be stuck with people who were supposed to love you, yet couldn’t.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Sometimes I feel dead," I told her, "and I hate everybody.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Maybe they understood, in fact, that beauty and meaning had nothing to do with one another.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation