Jacqueline Faustin > Jacqueline 's Quotes

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

“Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“All I needed for the mind was to be led to new stations. All I needed for the heart was to visit a place of greater storms.”
― Patti Smith, M Train

“she experienced the melancholy luxury of solitary joy”
― Patti Smith, Devotion

“I could feel the gravitational pull of home, which when I'm home too long becomes the gravitational pull of somewhere else.”
― Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey

“Some dreams aren't dreams at all, just another angle of physical reality.”
― Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey

“I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.”
― James Baldwin , Giovanni’s Room

“More room in your heart for love, for the trees! For the birds who own nothing—the reason they can fly.”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“Once we’re comfortable with death, we’ll do a better job with our lives.”
― Ann Patchett, Whistler

“May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny but useful.”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays