Rahul Adusumilli > Rahul 's Quotes

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
― George Eliot

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
― Anton Chekhov

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.”
― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts”
― Jose Saramago

“Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“Humanity lives in its fiction.”
― Blaise Cendrars

“Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.”
― Kingsley Amis

“I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.”
― Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Do you ever think anything you don't say?”
― Bart Simpson's Girlfriend

“Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
― Stéphane Mallarmé

“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 cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain

“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
― Norman Mailer

“I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.”
― David Foster Wallace

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.”
― Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Arguing with one who will not accept facts is like administering medicine to the dead.”
― Thomas Paine, Writings of Thomas Paine - Volume 1 (1774-1779): the American Crisis

“As humans, we waste the shit out of our words. It’s sad. We use words like “awesome” and “wonderful” like they’re candy. It was awesome? Really? It inspired awe? It was wonderful? Are you serious? It was full of wonder? You use the word “amazing” to describe a goddamn sandwich at Wendy’s. What’s going to happen on your wedding day, or when your first child is born? How will you describe it? You already wasted “amazing” on a fucking sandwich.”
― Louis C.K.

“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog