Agnes > Agnes's Quotes

“For only he who is alive is in the right.”
― Max Stirner

“…I am a good Hegelian. If you have a good theory, forget about the reality.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

“You will kill ten of us, we will kill one of you, but in the end, you will tire of it first.”
― Ho Chi Minh

“We the unwilling, led by the unqualified to kill the unfortunate, die for the ungrateful.”
― John Hart, The Unwilling

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
― Jimi Hendrix

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
― Ovid

“Neither creation nor sacrifice could lead a person to heaven.”
― Otessa Moshfegh

“When I die and go to heaven, to St. Peter, I will tell: "one more soldier reporting for duty, sir. I've served my time in hell.”
― M. Popplewell

“Cubitum eamus?"
"What?"
"Nothing.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?”
― John Lennon

“Too young to vote, but not to die, too young to love, but too old to cry”
― Unknown, Saigon 1968

“What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Let me win your heart and mind or I'll burn your god damn hut down”
― unknown, Vietnam 68-71

“When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
― sylvia plath

“They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Well, you know or don't you kennet or haven't I told you every
telling has a taling and that's the he and the she of it.”
― James Joyce

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
― Friedrich W. Nietzsche

“But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

from “Araby”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

“...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”
― Aristotle

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Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht.
Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt.
Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist.


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Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through.
If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.
Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus