Quotes - Mari (voltera) (Yerevan, 11, Armenia) Showing 1-30 of 36

#1

“The problem with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and putting things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett

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#2

“Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

398 likes

#3

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

7208 likes

#4

“It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”
― Charles Bukowski, Pulp: Charles Bukowski's Final Hardboiled Noir Comedy – Lady Death, Aliens, and the Absurd

tags: life

1105 likes

#5

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

tags: beatitudes, disappointment, expectations, hope

5434 likes

#6

“Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.”
― Woody Allen

1074 likes

#7

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

tags: love

36851 likes

#8

“People change and forget to tell each other.”
― Lillian Hellman

2842 likes

#9

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales

25179 likes

#10

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

71707 likes

#11

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

81853 likes

#12

“I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.”
― Voltaire

tags: monarchy

192 likes

#13

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

tags: books, reading

9853 likes

#14

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

5109 likes

#15

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: books, children

7961 likes

#16

“After all, only women are able really to love.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

44 likes

#17

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

3563 likes

#18

“I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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#19

“We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

tags: food

271 likes

#20

“Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

tags: afraid, fear, merricat, strangers

150 likes

#21

“I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

tags: death, hate, poison

182 likes

#22

“I would have to find something else to bury here and I wished it could be Charles.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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#23

“I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

tags: philosophy

820 likes

#24

“I belong deeply to myself.”
― Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

800 likes

#25

“And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

692 likes

#26

“Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: flirting, milan-kundera

506 likes

#27

“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

tags: garcin, hell, people

2336 likes

#28

“So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

tags: hell, people

420 likes

#29

“Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

128 likes

#30

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

tags: history, truth

1181 likes

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