Laura Silva > Laura's Quotes

“Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“Love is not a candle burning down. Life is. And love and life are not the same or else Love, having choice, nobody would ever die.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

“People always talked about the good clean smell of fresh sweat. They had to make excuses for it. They never talked about the good clean smell of fresh shit. There was nothing really as glorious as a good beer shit - I mean after drinking twenty or twenty-five beers the night before. The odor of a beer shit like that spread all around and stayed for a good hour-and-a-half. It made you realize that you were really alive.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.
some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
some lose both and become accepted.”
― Charles Bukowski

“That way I wouldn't have to see the guys in their walking shorts. They looked as if nothing had ever touched them- all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheet of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail, or worked hard with their hands, or even gotten a traffic ticket. Skimmed-milk jollies, the whole bunch.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“Tell him to seek the stars and he will kill himself with climbing.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

“I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.”
― Lawrence Durrell

“Aquí, el sexo no tiene nada que ver con el placer, sólo con el odio. Es una manera de humillar y desmoralizar al adversario.”
― Laura Esquivel, Testigos del horror

“El secuestro es una contradicción en un país que nació de la lucha contra la esclavitud”,”
― Laura Esquivel, Testigos del horror

“Los mayas decían que el universo no es otra cosa que una matriz resonante a la cual nos podemos conectar”
― Laura Esquivel, Testigos del horror

“sus dos virtudes mayores son la determinación y la paciencia. Que a simple vista parecen contradictorias, pero la vida le ha demostrado que no lo son.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Noticia de un secuestro

“While picking the good, we have the best of intentions in mind; say, like using these traits in the best possible way. Over time and circumstances, some of these traits become redundant and over-used. Situations change while traits don’t. This leads to the traits falling behind in the cycle of survival.”
― Patrick Grayson, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Mental Disorder Treatment To Defeat Addictions, Depression, and Anxieties, 2nd Edition

“Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Not that I will ever believe there is nothing in common between any two people, as some declare is the case. I am sure people make a great mistake in sorting each other into groups, by appearances;”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“I remember my melancholy was intolerable; I felt inclined to cry; I sat and wondered and wondered uncomfortably; the consciousness that everything was strange weighed terribly upon me; I could understand that it was all foreign and strange.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“Very well, then there's an experiment, and the thing is proved; one cannot live and count each moment; say what you like, but one cannot.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“As soon as I kiss him I know that I love him with a blind instinct beyond all reason, with all his defects.”
― Anaïs Nin, Fire: From A Journal of Love - The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

“Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better. But better can sometimes mean worse, if you’re a woman,”
― Roberto Bolaño, Amulet

“guerras no hacen bien a nadie, y da igual si te posicionas o no, siempre sales escaldado.”
― Armando Rodera, La posada del viajero

“She was a child robbed of her beloved sea and shore,”
― Linda Wagner-Martin, Sylvia Plath: A Biography

“i want to apologize to all the women i have called beautiful
before i’ve called them intelligent or brave
i am sorry i made it sound as though
something as simple as what you’re born with
is all you have to be proud of
when you have broken mountains with your wit
from now on i will say things like
you are resilient, or you are extraordinary
not because i don’t think you’re beautiful
but because i need you to know
you are more than that”
― Rupi Kaur

“La pasé sentado junto a la tumba de Rosa, hablando con ella, acompañándola en la primera parte de su viaje al Más Allá, cuando es más difícil desprenderse de la tierra y se necesita el amor de los que quedan vivos, para irse al menos con el consuelo de haber sembrado algo en el corazón ajeno.”
― Isabel Allende, La casa de los espíritus

“Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.”
― Juan Rulfo

“Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like
they're falling in love with the ground.”
― Andrea Gibson

“También sabía que amaría a aquella niña durante toda su existencia, que ese amanecer perduraría en su recuerdo y que sería lo último que vería en el momento de morir. Ese”
― Isabel Allende, La casa de los espíritus

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”
― Lou Holtz

“a reviewer should never be afraid to make a fool of himself.”
― Pauline Réage, Story of O

“El cuento de que los niños merecen felicidad lo inventó Walt Disney para ganar plata.”
― Isabel Allende, El amante japonés

“Very few old folk are happy, Irina. Most of them are poor, aren’t healthy, and have no family. It’s the most fragile and difficult stage of life, more so than childhood, because it grows worse day by day, and there is no future other than death.”
― Isabel Allende, The Japanese Lover

“We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.
-Suyuan”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club