Maria > Maria's Quotes

“He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James.

"No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses," said Mrs. Cadwallader.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Did you ever want to set someone's head on fire, just to see what it looked like? Did you ever stand in the street and think to yourself, I could make that nun go blind just by giving her a kiss? Did you ever lay out plans for stitching babies and stray cats into a Perfect New Human? Did you ever stand naked surrounded by people who want your gleaming sperm, squirting frankincense, soma and testosterone from every pore? If so, then you're the bastard who stole my drugs Friday night. And I'll find you. Oh, yes.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 5: Lonely City

“Είμαι μια κανάτα γεμάτη αθάνατο νερό μα και νεκρό νερό, φτάνει λίγο να γείρω για να ξεχυθούν από μέσα μου όμορφες σκέψεις, μορφωμένος παρά τη θέληση μου δεν ξέρω ποιες σκέψεις είναι δικές μου και ποιες τις διάβασα.”
― Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude

“Όταν διαβάζω ουσιαστικά δεν διαβάζω, παίρνω στο στόμα μια όμορφη φράση και την πιπιλάω σαν καραμέλα, σαν να σιγοπίνω ένα ποτηράκι λικέρ τόσην ώρα όσο να φτάσει αυτή η σκέψη να διαλυθεί μέσα μου σαν το οινόπνευμα, τόσην ώρα αποστάζει μέσα μου ίσαμε να φτάσει όχι μονάχα στο μυαλό και στην καρδιά μου, μα κουτσά κουτσά, μέσα απ' τις φλέβες μου, ως τα τριχοειδή αγγεία μου'.”
― Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude

“I’ll find a way to give you a good life”
― Old Xian, 19 Days

“Ultimately, arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”
― Edward Snowden

“Książki, która nie zasługuje na ponowne przeczytanie, nie warto było czytać w ogóle.”
― Jaume Cabré, Jo confesso

“Do you see this shoelace? I’d like to take it and tie your tongue to your uvula, and your uvula to your stomach, and your stomach to your uterus, so that the very first word of your answer leaves you hollow.”
― Roque Larraquy, Comemadre

“It's okay... from now on, even if ya kill someone again, I'll carry that sin with you.”
― Mokumokuren, 光が死んだ夏 4 [Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu 4]

“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“We live in the world when we love it.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Insufferable Gaucho

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

“Only in chaos are we conceivable.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

“Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better”
― Roberto Bolaño, Amulet

“We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain”
― Roberto Bolaño, Last Evenings on Earth

“we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives

“I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives

“Reading is more important than writing.”
― Roberto Bolaño, Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

“Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

“Reading is never a waste of time.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

“And then the storm of shit begins.”
― Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

“Life is mysterious as well as vulgar.”
― Roberto Bolano, Last Evenings On Earth

“And I thought:History is like a horror story.”
― Roberto Bolaño, Amulet

“One should read Borges more.”
― Roberto Bolaño

“The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.”
― Roberto Bolaño, Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

“Which is to say, boys, that I saw our struggles and dreams all tangled up in the same failure, and that failure was called joy.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives

“Philip K. Dick died
and now we only need
what is strictly necessary.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Romantic Dogs