Cathy > Cathy 's Quotes

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive. ”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound..”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“God, but he lied beautifully; it was a masterclass. If I hadn't been concentrating so hard on my own deceit, I would have stood up and applauded.”
― Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

“Complexity should be your excuse for inaction.”
― Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

“ხეს ადამიანივით და კიდევ უკეთესად გაეგება ყველაფერი,ადამიანზე ლამაზად და უკეთესად სიკვდილიც შეუძლია და სიცოცხლე ხომ იცის და იცის უკეთესი...”
― Chabua Amirejibi, დათა თუთაშხია

“მეტეხის ციცაბო კლდის თავზე, იქ, საიდანაც ახლა ცხენზე ამხედრებული, მარჯვენაამართული გორგასალი თავზეხელაღებულ მძღოლებს აფრთხილებს, - მოსახვევში ცოტა ფრთხილად იყავითო - და სწორედ იქ საიდანაც სიცოცხლეზე ხელჩაქნეული თბილისელები ერთმანეთის წამხედურობით კისერზე ქვაგამობმულნი ეშვებოდნენ ხოლმე, ახლა აუტანლად ბინძურ და აშმორებულ მტკვარში იდგა მრავალტანჯული მეტეხის ციხე, ამ სიტყვის საპყრობილესეული გაგებით.”
― Nodar Dumbadze, თეთრი ბაირაღები

“I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. If we'd understood that back then-who knows?-maybe we'd have kept a tighter hold of one another.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods