Dani > Dani's Quotes

“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

“To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.”
― Henning Mankell, When the Snow Fell

“Paths are made by walking”
― Franz Kafka

“Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.”
― Kurt Tucholsky

“Der Vorteil der Klugheit besteht darin, daß man sich dumm stellen kann. Das Gegenteil ist schon schwieriger.”
― Kurt Tucholsky

“We are closer to the end of the world than to that minute that has just passed by, because that is lost forever.”
― Håkan Nesser, Mind's Eye

“You will find out who you are when the difficult moment comes.”
― Hakan Nesser, Mind's Eye

“It's not easy being human. Especially when you are tired and overworked all the time... That's when you become inhuman.”
― Hakan Nesser, Münsters Fall

“Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.”
― Hugh Laurie, The Gun Seller

“We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn