Effie > Effie's Quotes

“...I remain restless and dissatisfied; what I knot with my right hand, I undo with my left, what my left hand creates, my right fist shatters”
― Günter Grass, The Tin Drum

“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

“One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Surprising yourself is a big thing for me—to go somewhere that I don’t even know I’m going.”
― Lily Tuck

“O, brave new world
that has such people in't!”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“I am your wife if you will marry me.
If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow
You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“To be always what I am - and so changed from what I was.”
― Samuel Beckett, Happy Days

“But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
― anthony burgess

“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
― Lewis Carroll

“I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
― Anatole France

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.”
― Philip Reeve

“My personality is a luxury that's costing me too dearly.”
― Martin Page, How I Became Stupid

“Μιλάω για τον παντοτινό ελληνο-ελληνικό πόλεμο. Γενικώς ο διαφορετικός είναι μισητό πρόσωπο. Η αρχή του ρατσισμού παραμένει απλή: ή ανήκεις στο κοπάδι, ή σε σκοτώνομε..”
― Elias Petropoulos

“The saddest day of your life isn't when you decide to sell out. The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out and nobody wants to buy.”
― Norman Spinrad

“Ω ποίηση παλαιοζωική μαινάδα”
― Έκτωρ Κακναβάτος

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“Next to music, beer was best.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's usually too late, we've used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker