Quotes - Gabriele Gabriele (Vilnius, 65, Lithuania) Showing 1-20 of 20

#1

“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

tags: animals, cruelty, mankind

2697 likes

#2

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

46416 likes

#3

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

45 likes

#4

“Poets treat their experiences shamelessly: they exploit them”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

32 likes

#5

“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

1900 likes

#6

“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: humanity, individuals, love, mankind

3045 likes

#7

“One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

271 likes

#8

“To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

362 likes

#9

“I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

330 likes

#10

“How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Adolescent

52 likes

#11

“If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.
”
― Robert M. Sapolsky

102 likes

#12

“If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.”
― George Orwell, 1984

1787 likes

#13

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

tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde

5984 likes

#14

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: aesthetics, appreciation, hidden-things

3927 likes

#15

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

31197 likes

#16

“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: endurance, life, loss, love

2340 likes

#17

“I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

tags: fool, fyodor-dostoevsky, heart

658 likes

#18

“I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

228 likes

#19

“Why, you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you'll end by eating up one another, that's what I prophecy.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

34 likes

#20

“However, Gregor had become much calmer. All right, people did not understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to him, clearer than previously, perhaps because had gotten used to them”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

tags: confusion, self-expression, society, words

50 likes

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