Leo > Leo's Quotes

“The danger lies not in the imaginary hydra of revolution, but in a stubborn traditionalism that impedes progress.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“And besides, thought Yoshida, If it was all right for God to test man, why was it wrong for man to test God?”
― Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

“Don't settle: Don't finish crappy books. If you don't like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you're not on the right path, get off it.”
― Chris Brogan

“Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are. I for my part am fascinated by the search for a one-dimensional object that casts no shadow at all.”
― Marcel Duchamp

“I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“Alice: How long is forever?
White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.”
― Lewis Carroll

“Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

“Death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life. Death exists - in a paperweight, in
four red and white balls on a pool table - and we go on living and
breathing it into our lungs like fine dust.”
― Haruki Murakami

“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

(This quote is probably wrongly attributed to Sylvia Plath)”
― Sylvia Plath

“If I told you I’ve worked hard to get where I’m at, I’d be lying, because I have no idea where I am right now.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale