Quotes - Michelle (Fullerton, CA) Showing 1-30 of 248

#1

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: inspiration

#2

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: life, regrets

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#3

“If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#4

“I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

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#5

“I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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#6

“I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.”
― Jack Kerouac

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#7

“It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her.”
― Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

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#8

“My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind. I'm a wretch. But I love, love.”
― Jack Kerouac, Satori in Paris & Pic

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#9

“There are worse things than being mad.”
― Jack Kerouac

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#10

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

47071 likes

#11

“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

tags: paraphrase-of-congreve

15962 likes

#12

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: adventure, love

17493 likes

#13

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison

tags: life, paraphrase-of-lewis-carroll

11698 likes

#14

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness

15766 likes

#15

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: life, love

13994 likes

#16

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion

14731 likes

#17

“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost

tags: love, poetry

11833 likes

#18

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#19

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: imagination, life, money

9093 likes

#20

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: loss

9424 likes

#21

“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: dragons, wisdom

8729 likes

#22

“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
― William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery

tags: life, pain

6216 likes

#23

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

14691 likes

#24

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”
― Robert Frost

7197 likes

#25

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

8636 likes

#26

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

tags: logic, love

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#27