Quotes - Anthony Paz (anthonypaz) (San Pedro Sula, 05, Honduras) Showing 1-30 of 52

#1

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: books, reading

4402 likes

#2

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

tags: life, story

3422 likes

#3

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: love

4930 likes

#4

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: inspirational

8658 likes

#5

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

7183 likes

#6

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

6537 likes

#7

“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
― Franz Kafka

3335 likes

#8

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

4662 likes

#9

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

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#10

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: humour

8635 likes

#11

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth

11791 likes

#12

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

6566 likes

#13

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased

13395 likes

#14

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

6369 likes

#15

“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose”
― Charles Bukowski and Carl Weissner

4428 likes

#16

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

2935 likes

#17

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: books, castle, self

4145 likes

#18

“Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#19

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: honesty, truth-telling, writing

5105 likes

#20

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: writing

2824 likes

#21

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

10942 likes

#22

“Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

1399 likes

#23

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

4321 likes

#24

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: intelligence, intelligent-action

2974 likes

#25

“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: self-realization

2158 likes

#26

“Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: advice, poetry

463 likes

#27

“Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: love, romeo-and-juliet, values, waste

2506 likes

#28

“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

1112 likes

#29

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

tags: beauty, delusion, goodness, lies, self-deception, wisdom

5512 likes

#30

“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: deceit, honesty, lies, lying

1138 likes

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