Gustavo Silva > Gustavo's Quotes

“People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

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

“The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seemed filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster”
― Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems 1927-1979

“We are all worthy of one another.”
― Edward P. Jones, The Known World

“Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

“If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.”
― Ed Sullivan

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

“As soon as I take down her book and open it...My skies rise higher and hang younger stars.”
― Eavan Boland

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

“There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
― Geraldine Brooks, March

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“In a time of destruction, create something.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston

“A map says to you.
Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not...
I am the earth in the palm of your hand.”
― Beryl Markham

“You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
― Norman Rush

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.”
― Ava Gardner

“Terror made me cruel . . .”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.”
― William Cullen Bryant

“Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.”
― Norman Mailer

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
― Sigmund Freud

“I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
― Stephen Greenblatt

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

“My ambition was to live like music.”
― Mary Gaitskill