E > E's Quotes

“Nothing made me happen. I happened.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“ اماميهن يك قطعه خاك نيست. خاك هرجاهست. ميهن آن ميهني كه لايق دلبستگي باشد تركيب مي‌شود از فضاي فكري يك دسته آدم شايسته. شايستگي هم از فهم مي‌آيد نه از اطاعت بي‌گفت‌وگوي هردستور، حتي اگر دستور از روي فهم و دقت و انصاف هم باشد. حيف است آنچه "عاطفه"‌اش نام مي‌دهي فدائي و قرباني خيال غلط باشد. ”
― ابراهیم گلستان

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
― H.G. Wells

“All the beautiful things in this world are lies. They count for nothing in the end.”
― Patrick McCabe, The Butcher Boy

“Every hunchback has his gypsy, each phantom his diva, and flames of passion consume witches and martyrs alike. For any lonely monster, tradition demands that one sacrificial soul seek immolation. Ashes to ashes. It remains the ultimate, transformative act of love.”
― Robert Dunbar, Martyrs and Monsters

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“اهریمن:
میدونم که خودت هم از عشق بویی نبرده ای. اما متاسفانه عشق را نمیشه به کسی درس داد و گفت چیه، باید تو دل خود آدم باشه. گمونم عشق اونه که بتونی یک نفر دیگر را از خودت بیشتر دوست داشته باشی. آیا تا حالا شده که دیگری را از خودت بیشتر دوست داشته باشی؟”
― صادق چوبک, سنگ صبور

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft

“هدایت آدمی بود که در دوره خودش بی‌نظیر بود ، بی‌نظیری حسن او نبود گناه زمانه بود”
― ابراهیم گلستان, گفته‌ها

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

“God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.”
― William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

“The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His attack is psychological, Damien. And powerful.”
― William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

“This century hasn't got the lock on insanity.”
― William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

“Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.”
― William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
― Thomas Pynchon

“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
― D.H. Lawrence

“They're in love. Fuck the war.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

“Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
― Mark Twain

“This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really even got started.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“A Man Said to the Universe

A man said to the universe:
“Sir, I exist!”
“However,” replied the universe,
“The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.”
― Stephen Crane, War Is Kind and Other Poems

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
― Woody Allen

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

“Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.”
― Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman