The Big Books of Fall

Lucia > Lucia's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 155
« previous 1 3 4 5 6
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    178818 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
    82155 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Steven Moffat
    “People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.”
    ― Steven Moffat
    tags: doctor-who, humor, time-travel
    1667 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Jack Kerouac
    “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad
    11490 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday
    17463 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Lewis Carroll
    “Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: humor
    5163 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Lewis Carroll
    “have i gone mad?
    im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: humor
    2063 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Lewis Carroll
    “Why it's simply impassible!
    Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?
    Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    tags: alice, alice-in-wonderland, door, funny, humor, wordplay
    1699 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Lewis Carroll
    “We're all mad here.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    1444 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Lewis Carroll
    “Alice: How long is forever?
    White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: alice-in-wonderland
    1855 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Young people want mirrors. Older people want art.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Burnt Tongues
    tags: burnt-tongues, chuck-palahniuk
    240 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness
    15776 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Primo Levi
    “If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a
    happy time in a state of misery, it is just as true that calling up a
    moment of anguish in a tranquil mood, seated quietly at one's desk, is
    a source of profound satisfaction.”
    ― Primo Levi, The Periodic Table
    41 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Primo Levi
    “He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good”
    ― Primo Levi
    31 likes

    • like
  • #15
    T.S. Eliot
    “In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Family Reunion
    39 likes

    • like
  • #16
    T.S. Eliot
    “April is the cruelest month, breeding
    lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
    memory and desire, stirring
    dull roots with spring rain.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
    tags: april, cruelty, poetry, seasons, weather
    1498 likes

    • like
  • #17
    T.S. Eliot
    “I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: inspirational, meditation
    1739 likes

    • like
  • #18
    T.S. Eliot
    “What is hell? Hell is oneself.
    Hell is alone, the other figures in it
    Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from
    And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: hell, loneliness
    853 likes

    • like
  • #19
    T.S. Eliot
    “I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    716 likes

    • like
  • #20
    T.S. Eliot
    “If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: challenges, coping, thought-for-the-day
    738 likes

    • like
  • #21
    T.S. Eliot
    “There will be time, there will be time
    To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.”
    ― T.S. Eliot.
    tags: illusion, life, time
    700 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Gustave Flaubert
    “There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: life, poetry
    1778 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    1132 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Gustave Flaubert
    “She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
    767 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Gustave Flaubert
    “What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the sense of the small-scale ridiculousness of slap-stick comedy, but rather in the sense of ridiculousness that seems intrinsic to human life and that manifests itself in the simplest actions and the most extraordinary gestures. ”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    99 likes

    • like
  • #26
    André Gide
    “Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
    ― Andre Gide
    tags: integrity, moral-courage, self-esteem
    501 likes

    • like
  • #27
    T.S. Eliot
    “For I have known them all already, known them all—
    Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
    I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, T. S. Eliot Reading: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Others
    tags: life
    1010 likes

    • like
  • #28
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
    77070 likes

    • like
  • #29
    “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
    ― Anthony G. Oettinger
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-groucho-marx, time
    6192 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Dr. Seuss
    “How did it get so late so soon?”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: afternoon, december, flewn, june, late, night, soon, time
    4211 likes



Rss
« previous 1 3 4 5 6
All Quotes



Tags From Lucia’s Quotes

attributed-no-source
enemies
forgiveness
strategy
doctor-who
humor
time-travel
freethinker
inspirational
mad
alice
philosophy-of-life
psychological
yesterday
alice-in-wonderland
door
funny
wordplay
burnt-tongues
chuck-palahniuk
happiness
pain
peace
scar
sweetness
april
cruelty
poetry
seasons
weather
meditation
hell
loneliness
challenges
coping
thought-for-the-day
illusion
life
time
integrity
moral-courage
self-esteem
love
misattributed-to-groucho-marx
afternoon
december
flewn
june
late
night
soon