Kavan Dave > Kavan's Quotes

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!

Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.

Some love too little, some too long,
Some sell and others buy;
Some do the deed with many tears,
And some without a sigh:
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die.”
― Oscar Wilde, Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde including the Ballad of Reading Gaol

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
― Anne Rice

“Reading Is Dreaming with Open Eyes”
― Anonymous.

“Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.”
― Miles Davis

“It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.”
― Miles Davis

“I would prefer a sword to fight duel, but a pen to plan a war.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“The more I love humanity in general the less I love man in particular. In my dreams, I often make plans for the service of humanity, and perhaps I might actually face crucifixion if it were suddenly necessary. Yet I am incapable of living in the same room with anyone for two days together. I know from experience. As soon as anyone is near me, his personality disturbs me and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he’s too long over his dinner, another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I hate men individually the more I love humanity.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“If you understood everything I said, you’d be me”
― Miles Davis

“Marriage is supposed to be a union between two equals who love and support each other, not a master-slave relationship in which the man commands a docile woman.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
― Blaise Pascal

“Knowledge is power is time is money.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“Life is not about living the safer option. Life is about living a life worth living.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“A man.
A really manly man with a lot of mannishness in his manliness.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“Only stupid men would want stupid wives!”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“His lips reached mine and enveloped them, soft as velvet and yet unyielding.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.”
― Blaise Pascal

“Chains of gold are still chains.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“You always admire what you really don't understand.”
― Blaise Pascal

“And worse, far worse – he wasn't just kissing me. He was making me like it! And he was somehow, by some nefarious chauvinistic manly trick managing to make me kiss him back!”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.”
― Blaise Pascal

“His blue-green eyes were dark pools of immeasurable depth, pools you could drown yourself in and never again come up for air.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.”
― Blaise Pascal

“His silent, stony face was only inches away now. He was so near, so terribly near – and then he moved to close the last bit of distance.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal

“Hard. That was what he looked like. That was what you first noticed about him: a hard, chiselled face, like that that of some ancient Greek statue.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.”
― Blaise Pascal, The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent

“You expect me to come and work for you dressed up as a man?” I gasped.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.”
― Blaise Pascal