Quotes - Zavier (zavedave) (The United Kingdom) Showing 1-18 of 18

#1

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph

#2

“If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

tags: humor-cats-allergies

4305 likes

#3

“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: library

1463 likes

#5

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

37983 likes

#6

“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

tags: freedom-of-choice, good-and-evil

370 likes

#7

“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

tags: dystopia

1280 likes

#8

“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

tags: faith

105 likes

#9

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

16205 likes

#10

“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: conscious, rebel

2169 likes

#11

“I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dearly Devoted Dexter

80 likes

#12

“Feeling - what authentic human fun!”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

tags: crime, lizard, vintage

70 likes

#13

“The mind of the man and the mind of the woman is the same, but this business of living makes women use their minds in ways that men don't even have to think about.”
― Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

5 likes

#14

“Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason

84 likes

#15

“I've lived the life of a man without teeth, he thought about it. A life of a man without teeth. I've never bitten, I've been waiting, keeping myself for later - and now I've just ascertained that I don't have teeth anymore.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason

tags: existentialism, life, regret

55 likes

#16

“If I didn't try to assume responsibility for my own existence, it would seem utterly absurd to go on existing.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason

tags: existentialism, freedom, french-literature, jean-paul-sartre, philosophy, the-age-of-reason, the-roads-to-freedom

28 likes

#17

“I'm not obstinate, I'm highly strung: I don't know how to let myself go. I must always think of what is happening to me - it's a form of self-protection.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason

6 likes

#18

“We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

tags: zoology

95 likes

#19

“We have to hope, Daniel was saying, that the people who love us and who know us a little bit will in the end have seen us truly. In the end, not much else matters.”
― Ali Smith, Autumn

68 likes

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