Marin Zabed > Marin's Quotes

“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
― Aristotle

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

“Colour is the touch of the eye,
Music to the deaf,
A word out of darkness.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“But if you can confront your inner demons—"

"I did confront my inner demon. I punched him in the face and he exploded."

Valkyrie had to laugh. "But now he's back."

"Of course he's back. He's resourceful. He is my inner demon, after all.”
― Derek Landy, Death Bringer

“ভাসিয়ে দেবার প্রবণতা প্রকৃতির ভেতর আছে। সে জোছনা দিয়ে ভাসিয়ে দেয়, বৃষ্টি দিয়ে ভাসিয়ে দেয়, তুষারপাত দিয়ে ভাসিয়ে দেয়। আবার প্রবল প্রেম, প্রবল বেদনা দিয়েও তার সৃষ্টজগৎকে ভাসিয়ে দেয়।”
― Humayun Ahmed, হরতন ইশকাপন

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

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

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

“We live in a pretty apathetic age, yet we’re surrounded by an enormous amount of information about other people. If you feel like it, you can easily gather that information about them. Having said that, we still hardly know anything about people.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut them, and they bleed.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“The world eats good men for breakfast.”
― Mark Lawrence

“What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I sit beside the fire and think
Of all that I have seen
Of meadow flowers and butterflies
In summers that have been

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
In autumns that there were
With morning mist and silver sun
And wind upon my hair

I sit beside the fire and think
Of how the world will be
When winter comes without a spring
That I shall ever see

For still there are so many things
That I have never seen
In every wood in every spring
There is a different green

I sit beside the fire and think
Of people long ago
And people that will see a world
That I shall never know

But all the while I sit and think
Of times there were before
I listen for returning feet
And voices at the door”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Therefore, the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as day-dreams that these dwelling-places of the past remain in us for all time.”
― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

“Touch has a memory.”
― John Keats

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
― John Keats

“Ready-made phrases and the ritual of etiquette were unknown to him; his thoughtfulness was pure improvisation, and it resembled the little inventions affection inspires.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins

“Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.”
― patti smith

“Of everything I have seen,
it's you I want to go on seeing:
of everything I've touched,
it's your flesh I want to go on touching.
I love your orange laughter.
I am moved by the sight of you sleeping.

What am I to do, love, loved one?
I don't know how others love
or how people loved in the past.
I live, watching you, loving you.
Being in love is my nature.”
― Pablo Neruda

“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

“I have this vision: That I would finally come and find you. Scattered pieces of distance would not stand in my way. Not needing words; the barest of glimpses would suffice for you and me.”
― Franz Kafka

“On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Unexpectedly falling in love is the best way to fall, isn't it?”
― x q, ;

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
― Anais Nin

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores”
― John Keats

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― Albert Camus