Alexander Kotev > Alexander's Quotes

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

“-Стига си ме прекъсвал! Пий! Мирувай и живей, убиецо със скалпел в ръка! Виж какви сме станали! Доколкото ми е известно, само старите гърци са имали богове на пиенето и веселието: Бакхус и Дионисий. Вместо това ние имаме Фройд, комплекс за малоценност и психоанализ. Страхуваме се от силните думи в любовта, а употребяваме много по-силни в политиката. Жалко поколение, нали? — намигна Морозов.”
― Ерих Мария Ремарк

“No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“— А твоето сърце? Не е ли то барабан? „Да — мисля аз, — бавен и тих барабан, но при все това ще вдигне доста шум и ще донесе твърде много нещастие, и може би тъкмо затова ще пропусна да чуя сладостния, безименен зов на живота; той все още е понятен за онези, които не противопоставят на живота своето горделиво «аз» и не искат никакви обяснения, като че са заемодавци с неоспорими права, а не мимолетни пътници без следа.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, The Black Obelisk

“I am proud only of those days that pass in
undivided tenderness.”
― Robert Bly, A Little Book on the Human Shadow: A Poetic Journey into the Dark Side of the Human Personality, Shadow Work, and the Importance of Confronting Our Hidden Self

“Аусенсия Сантандер го преобърна целия от лице и от опаки с мъдростта си на старо куче, изправи го неколкократно с главата надолу, с краката нагоре, преобрази го до такава степен, сякаш отново го роди, натроши на парченца теоретичната му виртуозност и показа на Флорентино Ариса единственото, което трябваше да знае за любовта: че никой не може да поучава живота.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins

“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.”
― Mark Twain

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.”
― Ved Mehta, All for Love

“You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.”
― Billy Collins

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
― John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems

“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best, while you have it, use your breath;
There is no drinking after death.”
― Ben Jonson

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank

“I did not want to think so much about her. I wanted to take her as an unexpected, delightful gift, that had come and would go again — nothing more. I meant not to give room to the thought that it could ever be more. I knew too well that all love has the desire for eternity and that therein lies its eternal torment. Nothing lasts. Nothing.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.”
― O. Henry

“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Невесел, мълчалив, безчувствен за новия полъх на жизнелюбие, разтърсващ къщата, полковник Аурелиано Буендия едва-едва проумя, че тайната на добрата старост не е нищо друго, освен почтен договор със самотата.”
― Габриел Гарсия Маркес

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
― Mark Twain

“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche