Susan Stec > Susan's Quotes

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.”
― John Lennon

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Our life is made by the death of others.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein”
― Deborah Brodie

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women...”
― Orson Welles

“You better stop
Look around
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes
Here comes your nine-teenth nervous breakdown.”
― Mick Jagger

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyeilding calling and my passion.”
― Elizabeth Reyes

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“It's funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow, you can tease it all you want and it never gets you, if you're quick enough.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.”
― W.B. Yeats, Selected Poems and Four Plays

“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.”
― Ana�Nin

“All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Éorl and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Got to kick at the darkness 'till it bleeds daylight”
― Bruce Cockburn

“The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.”
― Colette

“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

“To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.”
― George Santayana

“The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl Jung
Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)”
― C.G. Jung

“I know of no book which has been a source of
brutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private,
that can compare with the Bible”
― James Paget

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

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

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
― Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning

“I’m not waiting until my hair turns white to become patient and wise. Nope, I’m dyeing my hair tonight.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“You can’t put a price tag on love. But if you could, I’d wait for it to go on sale.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale