Quotes - Ella (Kursk, 41, Russian Federation) Showing 1-30 of 97

#1

“Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales

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#2

“There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

739 likes

#3

“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite. ”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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#4

“The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

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#5

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
― Colette

1992 likes

#6

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

2510 likes

#7

“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: stupidity

1199 likes

#8

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

1438 likes

#9

“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: secrecy

1299 likes

#10

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde

6020 likes

#11

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: cynic

5394 likes

#12

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: art, humanity, sadness

2026 likes

#13

“We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: men-and-women

655 likes

#14

“The one charm about the past is that it is the past.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: memory

517 likes

#15

“It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible....”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: shallow

551 likes

#16

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-wicked-reading

9725 likes

#17

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

tags: books, reading

27743 likes

#18

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-reading

8494 likes

#19

“When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: comfort, crying, tears

4315 likes

#20

“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: reading-secrets

3713 likes

#21

“If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor

2538 likes

#22

“The sad truth is the truth is sad.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital

2474 likes

#23

“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

2254 likes

#24

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational-love, misattributed

9599 likes

#25

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering

7848 likes

#26

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational

4308 likes

#27

“What you seek is seeking you.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: attraction, rumi, sufi

5845 likes

#28

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
― Rumi

tags: bereavement, consolation, grief, loss, reincarnation

5273 likes

#29

“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”
― Rumi

tags: dance, inspirational

4467 likes

#30

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
― Rumi

tags: joy

4287 likes

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