2026 Reading Challenge

mt-reads > mt-reads's Quotes

Showing 1-22 of 22
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Kinky Friedman
    “My dear,
    Find what you love and let it kill you.
    Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
    Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.
    For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
    ~ Falsely yours”
    ― Kinky Friedman
    tags: death, love
    5569 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Ned Vizzini
    “I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
    ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
    tags: depression, sadness, suicide
    7076 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Ward Moore
    “Why should you believe your eyes? You were given eyes to see with, not to believe with. Your eyes can see the mirage, the hallucination as easily as the actual scenery.”
    ― Ward Moore, Bring the Jubilee
    1894 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: devil, hell, world
    2858 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Lewis Carroll
    “Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: dream, imagination, reality, war
    1788 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Yvvette Edwards
    “Hello, little man,’ I said and kissed his cheek.

    ‘Urgh.’ He wiped the kiss off. ‘I hate lipstick.’

    I laughed as if he were joking and kissed him again. ‘You’ll love it when you’re older.’

    ‘When I’m older,’ he asked, ‘will you be dead?’

    Though there was nothing in his tone but interest, the question floored me completely. Stunned, I opened my mouth to reply, but could think of nothing to say.

    ‘The mum of one of the kids in Ben’s class is dead,’ Red said, his tone neutral. ‘Ever since he found out, he’s been obsessed.’

    ‘Will you?’ Ben pressed.

    ‘Mummy will die when she’s old,’ his father answered, and I had to bite my tongue, because I knew better than anyone that death did not pre-book appointments decades in advance. Its approach was random, based on whimsy, often violent. I came from a line of women who bore a single child and were dead before its eighteenth birthday. ‘You’ve got nothing to worry about,’ Red said.”
    ― Yvvette Edwards, A Cupboard Full of Coats
    1 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Isaac Marion
    “Deep under our feet the Earth holds its molten breath, while the bones of countless generations watch us and wait.”
    ― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
    tags: earth, generations, waiting
    69 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Criss Jami
    “Old words are reborn with new faces.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: aphorisms, books, faces, generations, knowledge, learning, new, poetry, quotations, quotes, rebirth, studying, understanding, wisdom, words, writing
    61 likes

    • like
  • #9
    E.B. Loan
    “All that history, the love & laughter, is designed for youth. It is what keeps the story of who we are alive from one generation to the next. It ensures our indelible mark in the souls of generations we will never have the pleasure of holding in a warm embrace. Life is short people. Before you know it, another decade will pass, people you love will be lost to this world, and all that will be left of them is what we carry in our hearts." 2011”
    ― E. B. Loan, Elsie Love
    tags: family, generations, lost-love, love
    33 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: conformity, fashion, generation
    637 likes

    • like
  • #11
    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dreams, life
    48256 likes

    • like
  • #12
    “Everything turns in circles and spirals with the cosmic heart until infinity. Everything has a vibration that spirals inward or outward — and everything turns together in the same direction at the same time. This vibration keeps going: it becomes born and expands or closes and destructs — only to repeat the cycle again in opposite current. Like a lotus, it opens or closes, dies and is born again. Such is also the story of the sun and moon, of me and you. Nothing truly dies. All energy simply transforms.”
    ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
    tags: afterlife, birth, born, born-again, circle, circles, closes, cosmic, cosmic-heart, creation, currents, cycle, cycle-of-life, cycles, death, destruction, destructs, dies, direction, dreams, dying, end, ending, energy, evolution, expands, geometria, harmonic-principles, harmonics, heart, infinity, knowledge, life, living-things, lotus, lotus-flower, matter, metaphysics, mother-nature, natural-world, nature, opposite, philosopher-quotes, philosophy, physics, poet, reality, rebirth, reborn, reincarnation, relgion, repeat, repeats, science, soul, spirals, spiritual, spirituality, suzy-kassem, theory, time, transform, transforms, true, turns, universe, vibration, vibrations, wisdom
    50 likes

    • like
  • #13
    “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
    ― Suzy Kassem
    tags: doubt, failure, self-doubt, success, suzy-kassem
    376 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, inspirational, live-in-the-moment, optimism, wonder
    2200 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Tad Williams
    “He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.”
    ― Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair
    tags: ending, foolish, wisdom, wonder
    280 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Kate Forsyth
    “There's a flame of magic inside every stone & every flower, every bird that sings & every frog that croaks. There's magic in the trees & the hills & the river & the rocks, in the sea & the stars & the wind, a deep, wild magic that's as old as the world itself. It's in you too, my darling girl, and in me, and in every living creature, be it ever so small. Even the dirt I'm sweeping up now is stardust. In fact, all of us are made from the stuff of stars.”
    ― Kate Forsyth, The Puzzle Ring
    tags: fairy-tales, magic, stardust, wonder
    103 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Arundhati Roy
    “She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims...”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
    tags: beautiful, flowers, midnight
    801 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Lauren Myracle
    “I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.”
    ― Lauren Myracle
    tags: funny, home, life
    2049 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Neil Gaiman
    “I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: childhood, happiness
    2085 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Patricia A. McKillip
    “Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.”
    ― Patricia A. McKillip
    tags: imagination
    1891 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Dodie Smith
    “When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: imagination, reading, reading-books
    393 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Francis Bacon
    “Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
    ― Francis Bacon
    tags: humor, imagination
    341 likes



Rss
All Quotes



Tags From mt-reads’s Quotes

death
love
depression
sadness
suicide
devil
hell
world
dream
imagination
reality
war
earth
generations
waiting
aphorisms
books
faces
knowledge
learning
new
poetry
quotations
quotes
rebirth
studying
understanding
wisdom
words
writing
family
lost-love
conformity
fashion
generation
dreams
life
afterlife
birth
born
born-again
circle
circles
closes
cosmic
cosmic-heart
creation
currents
cycle
cycle-of-life
cycles
destruction
destructs
dies
direction
dying
end
ending
energy
evolution
expands
geometria
harmonic-principles
harmonics
heart
infinity
living-things
lotus
lotus-flower
matter
metaphysics
mother-nature
natural-world
nature
opposite
philosopher-quotes
philosophy
physics
poet
reborn
reincarnation
relgion
repeat
repeats
science
soul
spirals
spiritual
spirituality
suzy-kassem
theory
time
transform
transforms
true
turns
universe
vibration
vibrations
doubt
failure
self-doubt
success
advice-for-daily-living
inspirational
live-in-the-moment
optimism
wonder
foolish
fairy-tales
magic
stardust
beautiful
flowers
midnight
funny
home
childhood
happiness
reading
reading-books
humor