Aliash > Aliash's Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
― Douglas Adams

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Struggle always produces resentment”
― Italo Svevo, Zeno's Conscience

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.”
― E.B. White

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
― Franz Kafka

“The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal.”
― Camille Paglia

“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”
― Jean-Luc Godard

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”
― Voltaire

“History never repeats itself. Man always does.”
― Voltaire