Dimitris Grigorakis > Dimitris's Quotes

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

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”
― Franz Kafka

“There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy

“You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.”
― Paul Auster

“Του θεού το στάρι στα ψηλά καμιόνια
το φόρτωσαν και πάει.
Μες την έρμη κι άδεια πολιεία μένει
το χέρι που μονάχα
με μπογιά θα γράψει στους μεγάλους τοίχους
ΨΩΜΙ ΚΙ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑ”
― Odysseas Elytis, The Axion Esti

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
― Oscar Wilde

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
― Oscar Wilde

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“Poet

To mask the fiery thought,
in simple words succeeds.
For still the craft of genius is,
To mask a king in weeds”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems

“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”
― Charles Bukowski