Horror's Greatest Hits

Ivona Raskolnikov > Ivona's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 42
« previous 1
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Fernando Pessoa
    “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: literature, reading, solitude
    4190 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Fernando Pessoa
    “My past is everything I failed to be.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: failure, past, self, time
    1470 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Fernando Pessoa
    “I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    1369 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Fernando Pessoa
    “No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it”
    ― Fernando Pessoa
    tags: humour
    1259 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Fernando Pessoa
    “There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: life, pain, ships
    1238 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational
    49933 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Marilyn Monroe
    “If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source
    13341 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Neil Gaiman
    “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

    • like
  • #9
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
    45245 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Neil Gaiman
    “Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    6471 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Neil Gaiman
    “What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
    tags: books, bookstore, towns
    5396 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Neil Gaiman
    “I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: books
    4702 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Neil Gaiman
    “Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: humor, men, witchcraft, witches, women
    3407 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Fernando Pessoa
    “In order to understand, I destroyed myself.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa
    856 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Darynda Jones
    “I stop fighting my inner demons. We're on the same side now. T-shirt”
    ― Darynda Jones, Second Grave on the Left
    tags: demons, grave, self
    435 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
    17560 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Stephen King
    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: life
    8363 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Stephen King
    “The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    5134 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Stephen King
    “I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”
    ― Stephen King
    2987 likes

    • like
  • #20
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature
    tags: fear-of-unknown
    2415 likes

    • like
  • #21
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: horror, irony
    1642 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Albert Schweitzer
    “There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
    ― Albert Schweitzer
    tags: attributed-no-source, cats, life, music
    3066 likes

    • like
  • #23
    George Carlin
    “Meow” means “woof” in cat.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: animals, cats, dogs, humor, language
    2147 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Charles Dickens
    “What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
    ― Charles Dickens
    tags: cats, gifts, love
    1933 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Neil Gaiman
    “We...we could be friends.'

    We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: cats, friends, sarcasm
    1265 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Jim Butcher
    “Are you always a smartass?'

    Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites
    tags: humor, impudence, sarcasm, smartass
    2110 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Cassandra Clare
    “A little girl robbed you?" Tessa said.
    "Actually, she wasn’t a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress with a penchant for violence, who goes by the name of Six-Fingered Nigel."
    "Easy mistake to make," Jem said.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: sarcasm
    1921 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Brandon Sanderson
    “You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.

    It's really funny.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
    tags: humor, sarcasm
    2010 likes

    • like
  • #29
    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: qotd
    9084 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Aristotle
    “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness
    2730 likes



Rss
« previous 1
All Quotes



Tags From Ivona’s Quotes

literature
reading
solitude
failure
past
self
time
humour
life
pain
ships
attributed-no-source
be-yourself
inspirational
love
books
dragons
fairy-tales
paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
bookstore
towns
humor
men
witchcraft
witches
women
demons
grave
magic
fear-of-unknown
horror
irony
cats
music
animals
dogs
language
gifts
friends
sarcasm
impudence
smartass
qotd
aristotle
genius
great-minds
madness