Paula > Paula's Quotes

“Lawyers are alright, I guess — but it doesn't appeal to me", I said. "I mean they're alright if they go around saving innocent guys' lives all the time, and like that, but you don't do that kind of stuff if you're a lawyer. All you do is make a lot of dough and play golf and play bridge and buy cars and drink Martinis and look like a hot-shot. And besides, even if you did go around saving guys' lives and all, how would you know if you did it because you really wanted to save guys' lives, or because you did it because what you really wanted to do was be a terrific lawyer, with everybody slapping you on the back and congratulating you in court when the goddam trial was over, the reporters and everybody, the way it is in the dirty movies? How would you know you weren't being a phony? The trouble is you wouldn't.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I don’t know about birds
nor do I know the history of fire.
But I believe that my solitude should have wings”
― alejandra pizarnik

“There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.”
― Stephen King, Lisey's Story

“She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is.”
― Stephen King, Lisey's Story

“Because who would ever want to get close to another person if they knew how hard the letting-go part was? In your heart they only die a little at a time, don't they? Like a plant when you go away on a trip and forget to ask a neighbor to poke in once in awhile with the old watering-can, and its so sad—”
― Stephen King, Lisey's Story

“Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief’s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced.”
― Stephen King, Lisey's Story

“I’m so afraid that all I can reach will lead me to all I dare not see.”
― Stephen King, Lisey's Story

“There were no ghosts. Only memory.”
― Stephen King, Lisey's Story

“I was lost in the dark and you found me. I was hot - so hot - and you gave me ice.”
― Stephen King, Lisey's Story

“It was the age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“–He luchado en vano. Ya no puedo más. Soy incapaz de contener mis sentimientos. Permítame que le diga que la admiro y la amo apasionadamente.”
― Jane Austen, Orgullo y prejuicio

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.”
― Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three

“En el medio del odio me pareció que había dentro de mí un amor invencible.
El medio de las lágrimas me pareció que había dentro de mí una sonrisa invencible.
En medio del caos me pareció que había dentro de mí una calma invencible.
Me di cuenta, a pesar de todo, que en medio del invierno había dentro de mí un verano invencible. Y eso me hace feliz.
Porque no importa lo duro que el mundo empuje en mi contra, dentro de mí hay algo mejor empujando de vuelta.”
― Albert Camus

“I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person’s attitude so that they wouldn’t get any closer. I didn’t easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Even I would be moved by his kindness at times, but he could, just as easily, be malicious and cruel. He was both a spirit of amazing loftiness and an irredeemable man of the gutter. He could charge forward, the optimistic leader, even as his heart writhed in a swamp of loneliness. He lived in his own special hell.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

“De toda esa miríada negra, cabalgándose y atropellándose, hacía una forma informe e inquietante, y me di cuenta, de súbito, que mi cuerpo estaba cubierto de piel de gallina.
En la oscura pantalla, mis ojos turbios se reblandecieron como metal a punto de derretirse, y en voz baja le dije a aquel yo al borde de la licuefacción: '¿quién eres tú? ¿de qué estás hecho?”
― Ryū Murakami, Almost Transparent Blue

“No sé lo que busco, lo nombro con prudencia, me desdigo, me repito, avanzo y retrocedo. Sin embargo, se me ordena dar nombres, o el nombre, de una vez y para siempre. Entonces me revuelvo; lo que se nombra, ¿no se ha perdido ya? Eso es, al menos, lo que puedo intentar decir,”
― Albert Camus

“Con todo, no puedo olvidar mis viejas y oscuras dudas de siempre. ¿Debo consagrar mis energías y mi tiempo a un propósito tan inútil? ¿Debo ir acarreando, uno tras otro, pesados cubos de agua a un lugar embarrado tras una larga lluvia? ¿No debería dejarme de esfuerzos inútiles y abandonarme, simplemente, a la corriente? ¿colisión? ¿y esto qué es?”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Yo no te deseo a ti más tormento que el que tengo yo, sólo quisiera que nunca nos separáramos y si en adelante una palabra mía te duele piensa que el mismo dolor estoy sintiendo yo.”
― Emily Brontë, Cumbres borrascosas

“Contesté que quizás fuera así. Quizás no estaba seguro de lo que realmente me interesaba, pero, en todo caso, estaba completamente seguro de lo que no me interesaba. Y precisamente, lo que él me decía no me interesaba.”
― Albert Camus

“Alguien entra en el silencio y me abandona.
Ahora la soledad no está sola.
Tú hablas como la noche.
Te anuncias como la sed.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik

“At least I have the flowers of myself,
and my thoughts, no god
can take that;
I have the fervour of myself for a presence
and my own spirit for light;

and my spirit with its loss
knows this;
though small against the black,
small against the formless rocks,
hell must break before I am lost;

before I am lost,
hell must open like a red rose
for the dead to pass.”
― H.D.

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

“To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness