Jared M > Jared's Quotes

“If you see a red tree, paint it bright red.”
― Paul Cezanne

“There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“Time will explain.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.”
― Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

“To possess something is to lose it. To feel something without possessing it is to keep it, because in that way one extracts its essence.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Don't fall asleep yet. Contrary to popular belief, that's not where dreams get accomplished.”
― George Watsky

“For anyone who insists that taking one step forward and two steps backward will never get you anywhere , I protest: It will if you're walking backwards.”
― George Watsky, How to Ruin Everything: Essays

“Oddly enough, living only for one’s emotions, like a flag obedient to the breeze, demands a way of life that makes one balk at the natural course of events, for this implies being altogether subservient to nature. The life of the emotions detests all constraints, whatever their origin, and thus, ironically enough, is apt eventually to fetter its own instinctive sense of freedom.”
― Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

“We are bound to hurt one another so much, again and again. we are so terribly different.''Yes,' he said, 'But the more different, the more lovely the loving.”
― Olaf Stapledon, Sirius