Dimitri Dudko > Dimitri's Quotes

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Do not be a magician - be magic!”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.”
― Francesco Petrarch

“The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.”
― Nikolai Gogol, The Government Inspector

“We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

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

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Kierkegaard was a Christian, though he hated the Danish Church and couldn't accept the way complacent Christians around him behaved. For him, religion was a heart-wrenching option, not a cosy excuse for a song in church.”
― Nigel Warburton, A Little History of Philosophy

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

“Never say more than is necessary.”
― Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even stronger in the case of the artist. Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one’s art. One must accept it. For this reason I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions

“We must not be too prodigal with our angels; they are the last divinities we harbor, and they might fly away.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions

“It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing.”
― Lionel Shriver, The Post-Birthday World

“Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.”
― Lionel Shriver, The Post-Birthday World

“For the living, death is thievery.”
― Lionel Shriver, The Post-Birthday World

“I find that the world is changing much, much faster than I can even bitch about it.”
― Bill Maher, The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

“Don't think or judge, just listen.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen