Teodora > Teodora's Quotes

“I'm not good at relationships
I always manage to find the flaws
sometimes in others
but mostly my own.
I foretell the ending
then go and create the cause
save myself
and end up alone”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes”
― Virginia Woolf

“My secret is that I need God—that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem to be capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem beyond being able to love.”
― Douglas Coupland

“Любов
Всяка нощ
да сънуваш жената
до която лежиш.”
― Георги Господинов, Балади и разпади

“Лабиринтът е нечие вкаменено колебание.

Най-потискащото в лабиринта е това, че непрекъснато си в ситуация на избор. Не липсата на изход, а обилието от "изходи" обърква.”
― Георги Господинов, Физика на тъгата

“Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short... was she happy? Not for a moment.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Във всяка секунда на този свят има една дълга върволица от плачещи хора и една по-малка от смеещи се.
Но има и трета върволица, която вече не плаче и вече не се смее.
Най-тъжната от трите. За нея ми се говори.”
― Георги Господинов, Natural Novel

“Сбогуване.
Нова квартира.
Нови сбогувания.
Студентски премествания.
Преместване след развода.
Местене в други държави.
Връщане.
Нова квартира.
Целият живот може да бъде разказан като каталог на преместванията.”
― Георги Господинов, Физика на тъгата

“Изследователите вярват, че съзнателното култивиране на емпатия, включително чрез четенето на романи (вж. S. Keen) , ще направи общуването далеч по-лесно и ще ни избави от бъдещи катаклизми в света.”
― Георги Господинов, Физика на тъгата

“Невъзможността да преживееш една трагедия, криза, депресия до дъното ѝ те прави неин постоянен заложник.”
― Георги Господинов, Невидимите кризи

“Партията шах е изгубена още при нареждането на фигурите, още преди първия ход. Такива са правилата на играта. Раждаме се от губещата страна на дъската. Нямаме много възможности срещу страховете си, срещу скоростта, с която нещата чезнат, срещу смъртта. Сякаш наистина с всяка една история откупуваме правото си на още една нощ, и още една нощ, поне до хиляда и първата.”
― Георги Господинов, Невидимите кризи

“You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.”
― Yoko Ono

“Make your own dream.

That's the Beatles' story, isn't it? That's Yoko's story, that's what I'm saying now. Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.

That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be.

There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.”
― John Lennon

“Раят
е винаги другаде
в рая
са винаги другите
другаде
раят е другаде
друг
ад
е”
― Георги Господинов, Балади и разпади

“Старостта е свикване.”
― Георги Господинов, Физика на тъгата

“Някога можех да бъда във всичко,да бъда всичко.Сега,в бездарието на зрелите си години исках да събера всичко при себе си,като малка компенсация за онова,което изгубих".”
― Георги Господинов, Физика на тъгата

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.”
― Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

“Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honor for the one he loves.
Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.”
― Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

“The media landscape of the present day is a map in search of a territory. A huge volume of sensational and often toxic imagery inundates our minds, much of it fictional in content. How do we make sense of this ceaseless flow of advertising and publicity, news and entertainment, where presidential campaigns and moon voyages are presented in terms indistinguishable from the launch of a new candy bar or deodorant? What actually happens on the level of our unconscious minds when, within minutes on the same TV screen, a prime minister is assassinated, an actress makes love, an injured child is carried from a car crash? Faced with these charged events, prepackaged emotions already in place, we can only stitch together a set of emergency scenarios, just as our sleeping minds extemporize a narrative from the unrelated memories that veer through the cortical night. In the waking dream that now constitutes everyday reality, images of a blood-spattered widow, the chromium trim of a limousine windshield, the stylised glamour of a motorcade, fuse together to provide a secondary narrative with very different meanings.”
― J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition

“Odd, some might think. Why someone would need to travel so far to find oneself. Surely a look in the mirror would suffice, and wouldn’t that be cheaper too? But the mirror lies, and the eyes that do the looking conspire too.”
― Farish A. Noor

“We are the daily bread of forlorn lovers, of all who want to believe in love; they cannot live without a taste.”
― Rob Bignell, Love Letters to Sophie's Mom

“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.”
― Douglas Coupland, Life After God

“When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun—that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidays—whenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, 'Well then, exactly what was it I was having—that interlude—the scrambly madness—all that time I had before?”
― Douglas Coupland, Life After God

“Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.”
― Douglas Coupland, Life After God

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Beauty is not always as perfect as we imagine it to be, but it can be damn close if we learn to accept the scary parts or the ugly parts.”
― Nick Miller, Isn't It Pretty To Think So?