B > B's Quotes

“And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.”
― James Joyce

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

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

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

“I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.”
― Nadine Gordimer, The House Gun

“She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
― Joy Williams

“I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands/and wrote my will across the sky in stars”
― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

“If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.”
― Kathy Acker

“Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.”
― Emile Zola

“The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.”
― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“There's no lack of void.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.”
― Rex Stout, The Rubber Band

“Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?

Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.”
― Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts

“Name one hero who was happy."
I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back.
"You can't." He was sitting up now, leaning forward.
"I can't."
"I know. They never let you be famous AND happy." He lifted an eyebrow. "I'll tell you a secret."
"Tell me." I loved it when he was like this.
"I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it."
"Why me?"
"Because you're the reason. Swear it."
"I swear it," I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes.
"I swear it," he echoed.
We sat like that a moment, hands touching. He grinned.
"I feel like I could eat the world raw.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.”
― Madeleine de Scudéry

“VLADIMIR: It's the start that's difficult.
ESTRAGON: You can start from anything.
VLADIMIR: Yes, but you have to decide.
ESTRAGON: True.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
― A.J. Cronin

“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
― Janet Frame

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

“The future has an ancient heart.”
― Carlo Levi