Lilly Jonsson > Lilly's Quotes

“As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“We all create stories to protect ourselves.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“It may be the wrong decision, but fuck it, it's mine.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“For the world seems never to offer anything worthwhile without also providing a dreadful opposite.”
― Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold

“Gaia listened carefully to this wise counsel and - as we all do, whether mortal or immortal - ignored it.”
― Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold

“it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“The human being is the cause of all evil in this world. We are our own virus.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“Because hatred gives one strength to go on; it maintains the fragile structure, it weaves the threads together so that emptiness doesn’t take over everything.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“Sometimes dead is better”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“and here you are living
despite it all”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“if you tried
and didn’t end up
where you wanted to go
that’s still progress”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“i have never known anything more quietly loud than anxiety”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“i am trusting the uncertainty
and believing i will
end up somewhere
right and good”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“make it a point
to love yourself
as fiercely as you do other people

- commitment”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“my mind keeps running off to dark corners and coming back with reasons for why i am not enough”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“you lose everything
when you don't love yourself

- and gain everything when you do”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray