Quotes - Kristyna (kristynapetrov) (Czech Republic) Showing 1-30 of 260

#1

“I never dreamed the sea so deep,
The earth so dark; so long my sleep,
I have become another child.
I wake to see the world go wild.”
― Allen Ginsberg

tags: an-eastern-ballad, poetry

186 likes

#2

“I am not talking about living dangerously. Such words are meaningless to me. The toreador does not stir me to enthusiasm. It is not danger I love. I know what I love. It is life.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

23 likes

#3

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

tags: humbert-humbert, love

6120 likes

#4

“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

tags: experience, life, travel

776 likes

#5

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: appreciation, awe, beauty, life, optimism, positivity, sense-of-wonder, stars

5363 likes

#6

“Your voice is wild and simple.
You are untranslatable
Into any one tongue.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

142 likes

#7

“I now walk into the wild.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

1324 likes

#8

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

tags: humor, proverb

12954 likes

#9

“And what would humans be without love?"
RARE, said Death.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

2192 likes

#10

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

3460 likes

#11

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

4858 likes

#12

“As if you were on fire from within.

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
― Pablo Neruda

tags: beauty, inner-beauty, love, passion

4207 likes

#13

“A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

93 likes

#14

“Physical love is unthinkable without violence.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: love, relationships, romance, violence

452 likes

#15

“Es muss sein. Es muss sein.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

52 likes

#16

“The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

123 likes

#17

“But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

136 likes

#18

“A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages...”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

236 likes

#19

“I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

262 likes

#20

“Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: creationism

166 likes

#21

“I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.”
― Terry Pratchett

192 likes

#22

“So much universe, and so little time.”
― Terry Pratchett

205 likes

#23

“I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

tags: getting-along

270 likes

#24

“Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

tags: discworld

304 likes

#25

“The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

tags: humor

364 likes

#26

“She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy night, contained strange and terrible things and she was it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

357 likes

#27

“I commend my soul to any god that can find it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

tags: humor, moist-von-lipwig

373 likes

#29

“he
opened me up
like a book
& poured the
poetry
back into
me.

-my personal pen and paper”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

tags: poetry-quotes

111 likes

#30

“The Doctor: Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And don't blink.”
― Steven Moffat

tags: blink, doctor-who

763 likes

#31

“The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

tags: humor

697 likes

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