N. Z. > N.'s Quotes

“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1951

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum

“Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday

“I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.”
― Chesterton G. K. (Gilbert Keith), The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

“I could forgive you even your cruelty if it were not for your calm.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

“It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.”
― G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday

“I have a God who knows what it is to weep and who weeps for me, weeps with me, understands to the depths and from the inside the rerum lachrymae, the tears of things.”
― Malcolm Guite, The Word in the Wilderness

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“Не си понасял истинска загуба. Тя е възможна, само когато обичаш
друг повече от себе си. Съмнявам се, че си се осмелявал толкова да обичаш някого.”
― Matt Damon, Good Will Hunting

“Well, look, I have to go. Gotta' get up early and waste some more money on my overpriced education.”
― Matt Damon, Good Will Hunting

“What a loss to spend that much time with someone, only to find out that she's a stranger.”
― Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

“I wonder if the things that remind me of you, remind you of me”
― eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

“I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Manalive

“If Innocent is happy, it is because he is innocent. If he can defy the conventions, it is just because he can keep the commandments. It is just because he does not want to kill but to excite to life that a pistol is still as exciting to him as it is to a schoolboy. It is just because he does not want to steal, because he does not covet his neighbour's goods, that he has captured the trick (oh, how we all long for it!), the trick of coveting his own goods. It is just because he does not want to commit adultery that he achieves the romance of sex; it is just because he loves one wife that he has a hundred honeymoons.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Manalive

“This man's spiritual power has been precisely this, that he has distinguished between custom and creed. He has broken the conventions, but he has kept the commandments.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Manalive

“No,' said Gould, with an unusual and convincing gravity; 'I do not believe that being perfectly good in all respects would make a man merry.'

'Well,' said Michael quietly, 'will you tell me one thing? Which of us has ever tried it?”
― G.K. Chesterton, Manalive

“A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Manalive

“We shall have gone deeper than the deeps of heaven and grown older than the oldest angels before we feel, even in its first faint vibrations, the everlasting violence of that double passion with which God hates and loves the world. ”
― G.K. Chesterton, Manalive

“Unhappy! of course you'll be unhappy. Who the devil are you that you shouldn't be unhappy, like the mother that bore you?”
― G.K. Chesterton, Manalive

“All habits are bad habits. (...) Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Manalive

“I mean that God bade me love one spot and serve it, and do all things however wild in praise of it, so that this one spot might be a witness against all the infinities and the sophistries, that Paradise is somewhere and not anywhere, is something and not anything. And”
― G.K. Chesterton, Manalive

“It would be wrong to say that she commanded; for her own efficiency was so impatient that she obeyed herself before any one else obeyed her.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Manalive

“But the world's made like that; it's all survival. Some people are made to get on...and some people are made to stick quiet.... You can't help your temperament.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Manalive

“The man has not spoken for hours; and yet he has been speaking all the time.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Manalive

“Every revolution, like a repentance, is a return.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Manalive

“There is only one good thing science ever discovered—a good thing, good tidings of great joy— that the world is round.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Manalive

“Would you be so obliging as to tell me whose house this is?’ “`Mine,’ said the burglar, `May I present you to my wife?”
― G.K. Chesterton, Manalive

“That God should allow good people to be as bestially stupid as that--rose against me like a towering blasphemy.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Manalive

“Mother Teresa's Anyway Poem

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

Inscribed on the wall of Mother Teresa's children's home in Calcutta.”
― Mother Teresa

“As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit