K > K's Quotes

“Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...”
― Robert Greene

“...It makes me cry, I want to talk about something I am not sure I can talk about, I want to talk about the inside from the inside, I do not want to leave it
I am so happy in the silky damp dark of the labyrinth and there is no thread”
― Hélène Cixous, The Book of Promethea

“Where he had failed, I would triumph.
Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“One of the schools of Tlön goes so far as to negate time; it reasons that the present is indefinite, that the future has no reality other than as a present hope, that the past has no reality other than as a present memory. Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified an mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process. Another, that the history of the universe — and in it our lives and the most tenuous detail of our lives — is the scripture produced by a subordinate god in order to communicate with a demon. Another, that the universe is comparable to those cryptographs in which not all the symbols are valid and that only what happens every three hundred nights is true. Another, that while we sleep here, we are awake elsewhere and that in this way every man is two men.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

“The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real creatures in symbolic space...In such spaces as the labyrinth we cross over [between real and imaginary spaces]; we are really travelling, even if the destination is only symbolic.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
― François Rabelais

“Damn it! How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?”
― Simón Bolívar

“Tell them I said something.”
― Pancho Villa

“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
― Anaïs Nin

“It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
― Franz Kafka

“I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.”
― Charles Bukowski

“there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled

a space

and even during the
best moments
and
the greatest times
times

we will know it

we will know it
more than
ever

there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled
and

we will wait
and
wait

in that space.”
― Charles Bukowski

“This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.”
― Oscar Wilde

“‎If heart filled with purity,
then mind found the beauty.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
― Walt Whitman

“Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.”
― Walt Whitman

“I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rock 'n' Roll

“Where to look if you've lost your mind?”
― Bernard Malamud, The Fixer

“I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“If life is a journey then let my soul travel and share your pain.”
― Santosh Kalwar

“I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.”
― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

“Human is a suffered mind but an enlightened soul.”
― Santosh Kalwar

“We move between two darknesses.”
― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

“There is more to a soul than what others see”
― Colleen Coble, Fire Dancer

“There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.”
― Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident], Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin

“Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.”
― Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith