Quotes - Desi Tancheva (Sofia, 42, Bulgaria) Showing 1-30 of 67

#1

“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

1570 likes

#2

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

1345 likes

#3

“Търсете онова, от което имате нужда навсякъде, където можете да го намерите - в стари грамофонни плочи, стари филми, стари приятели; търсете го в природата, търсете го у самия себе си.”
― Рей Бредбъри

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#4

“There's a terror in knowing what the world is about”
― David Bowie

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#5

“Don't let me hear you say life takes you nowhere, angel.

- Golden Years”
― David Bowie

66 likes

#6

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

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#7

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

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

7237 likes

#8

“She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

tags: education, school

179 likes

#9

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

tags: books, reading

4433 likes

#10

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

tags: philosophy

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#11

“From this moment I began to conclude in my mind that it was possible for me to be more happy in this forsaken, solitary condition that it was possible I should ever have been in any other particular state in the world; and with this thought I was going to give thanks to God for bringing me to this place.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

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#12

“If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.”
― Henry Rollins

tags: henry-rollins

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#13

“Good-bye Clarice. Will you let me know if ever the lambs stop screaming?" "Yes." Pembry was taking her arm. It was go or fight him. "Yes," she said. "I'll tell you." "Do you promise?""Yes.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

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#14

“Very early in my life it was too late.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

858 likes

#15

“Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

296 likes

#16

“I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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#17

“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

1091 likes

#18

“The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
― Nat King Cole

tags: eden-ahbez

265 likes

#19

“Where words leave off, music begins.”
― Heinrich Heine

tags: music, power-of-music

2853 likes

#20

“You are cold, while you yourself fan flames.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs

tags: cold, flames, venus-in-furs

30 likes

#21

“Woman's power lies in man's passion, and she knows how to use it, if man doesn't understand himself. He has only one choice: to be the tyrant over or the slave of woman.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs

tags: passion, power, slave, venus-in-furs

23 likes

#22

“The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped,
deserves to be whipped.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs

tags: abuse, masochoism, morals, s-m, wipping

47 likes

#23

“I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

139 likes

#24

“If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

tags: youth

17 likes

#25

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

6037 likes

#26

“And so it goes...”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

tags: classics

4753 likes

#27

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
― Reinhold Niebuhr

tags: inspirational, serenity-prayer

606 likes

#28

“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: truth

1522 likes

#29