Quotes - Eva Müller (black-cat-aoife) (Aschaffenburg, Germany) Showing 1-30 of 74

#1

“Her face was a stranger’s face, which was as it should be. Love each other from the day we are born to the day we die, we are still strangers every minute, and nobody should forget that, even though we have to. ”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Innkeeper's Song

tags: love

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#2

“Books don't prattle. Books don't make demands. Yet they give you everything they possess. It's a very satisfying partnership.”
― Carol Berg

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#3

“They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be.”
― Terry Pratchett, Nation

tags: laugh

275 likes

#4

“Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.”
― Noel Fielding

tags: fantasy, humor

189 likes

#5

“I don't mean to hate people, I just get forced into it.”
― Jon Richardson, It's Not Me, It's You

42 likes

#6

“I'm somewhat socially inept. Slide me between two strangers at any light-hearted jamboree and I'll either rock awkwardly and silently on my heels, or come out with a stone-cold conversation-killer like, "This room's quite rectangular, isn't it?" I glide through the social whirl with all the elegance of a dog in high heels”
― Charlie Brooker

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#7

“But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.”
― Patrick O'Brian, Master & Commander

tags: jingoism, maturin, nationalism, nationality, patriotism, stephen-maturin

224 likes

#8

“Hate is a terrible thing. It's a wasteful, stupid emotion. You can hate someone with all your heart, but it'll never do them a bit of harm. The only person it hurts is you. You can spend your days hating, letting it eat away at you, and the person you hate will go on living just the same. So, what's the point?”
― Stuart Neville, The Twelve

tags: emotions, hate, hurt, life-lessons

37 likes

#9

“Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where 'traditional values' meant 'hang someone'.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Truth: Stage Adaptation

71 likes

#10

“I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask

115 likes

#11

“We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

751 likes

#12

“If you don't want a man dead, don't bludgeon him over the head repeatedly.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

379 likes

#13

“Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

tags: freedom, justice, revolution, slogan, truth

83 likes

#14

“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: dragons, wisdom

8727 likes

#16

“Manche von uns haben Lieblingsbücher, die sie nie gelesen haben. Manche sogar welche, die nie geschrieben wurden. Dieses hier ist eines von meinen, und deshalb schreibe ich es auf.”
― kai meyer

39 likes

#17

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

88111 likes

#18

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

81847 likes

#19

“A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

tags: bookshop, bookstore, discworld, read, reading

1489 likes

#20

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

tags: books, humor

2606 likes

#21

“Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

tags: luck

432 likes

#22

“His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

1039 likes

#23

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

22059 likes

#24

“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

2164 likes

#25

“A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.”
― W.H. Auden

70 likes

#26

“No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”
― W. H. Auden

75 likes

#27

“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

6935 likes

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