Duncan > Duncan's Quotes

“I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.”
― Alasdair Gray, Lanark

“I hate this wretched willow soul of mine, patiently enduring, plaited or twisted by other hands”
― Karin Boye, Kris

“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
― Italo Calvino

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

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

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
― Anais Nin

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Thus we are driven, lost souls, from camp-fire flame to camp-fire flame, know nothing of our next rest and nothing of the journey's aim”
― Karin Boye, Complete Poems

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.”
― Sarah Kane

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful”
― Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis

“If I could be free of you without having to lose you.”
― Sarah Kane, Crave

“My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! ”
― Marquis de Sade

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen Hawking

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
― OMAR KHAYYAM, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

“It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes guts to be gentle and kind”
― Morrissey

“Today is the tomorrow you were promised yesterday.”
― Shaun Tan, The Lost Thing

“I stopped stopping and I stopped starting, and I allowed myself to be crushed by ignorance.”
― Leonard Cohen, Book of Mercy

“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

“I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes.”
― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”
― Djuna Barnes

“Education should help us to discover lasting values so that we do not merely cling to formulas or repeat slogans; it should help us to break down our national and social barriers, instead of emphasizing them, for they breed antagonism between man and man. Unfortunately, the present system of education is making us subservient, mechanical, and deeply thoughtless; though it awakens us intellectually, inwardly it leaves us incomplete, stultified, and uncreative.”
― Krishnamurti

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
― Alan Watts