Quotes - Chirag (chiraghahuja) Showing 1-30 of 384

#1

“I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

#2

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
― Albert Camus

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#3

“There is not love of life without despair about life.”
― Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

tags: mortality

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#4

“If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

tags: fiction, humor

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#5

“I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
― Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

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#6

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

tags: courage, talent

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#7

“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
― Sean O'Casey

tags: joy, laughter

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#8

“I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.”
― Herman Melville

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#9

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

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#10

“We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.”
― Leonora Carrington

tags: dawn, light, silence

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#11

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

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#12

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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#13

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: philosophy

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#14

“In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

tags: love, sex

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#15

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

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#16

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

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#17

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You

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#18

“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

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#19

“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

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#20

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail

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#21

“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
― Richard P. Feynman

tags: science

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#22

“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.”
― Richard P. Feynman

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#23

“If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.”
― Richard P. Feynman

tags: science

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#24

“There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.”
― Richard Feynman

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#25

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

tags: life, love

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#26

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success

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#27

“I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
― Herbert Bayard Swope

tags: failure, inspirational, misattributed-bill-cosby, success

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