Lila > Lila's Quotes

“She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune moment”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“...time was not passing...it was turning in a circle...”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice...”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Τέλος πάντων, κάτι πρέπει ν' αγαπάει κανείς σ' αυτό το κόσμο. Μπορείς να ζήσεις δίχως να σ' αγαπάνε, μα όχι δίχως ν' αγαπάς.”
― Κοσμάς Πολίτης, Στου Χατζηφράγκου

“For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

“I live in fear of being alive.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

“From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

“Αν δεν ξεχειλίσει η καρδιά του ανθρώπου από αγάπη ή από θυμό, τίποτα δεν μπορεί να γίνει στον κόσμο...”
― Νίκος Καζαντζάκης, Christ Recrucified

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“Nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.”
― Stefan Zweig

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.”
― Woody Allen

“They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Life [had] replaced logic.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.

I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig.
Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.
When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic.
No rhetoric, no tremolos,
no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell.
And of course, no theology, no metaphysics.
Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light.

So throw away your baggage and go forward.
There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet,
trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair.
That’s why you must walk so lightly.
Lightly my darling,
on tiptoes and no luggage,
not even a sponge bag,
completely unencumbered.”
― Aldous Huxley , Island

“Είχα κάνει τη φιλενάδα μου φοβερή για να μπορέσω αργότερα να τη βρω ακόμα πιο ασήμαντη. Ο υπερβολικός θαυμασμός κρύβει μέσα του το μίσος. Είναι σα να γκρεμίζεις από πριν αυτόν που έστησες στο βάθρο.”
― Pascal Bruckner, Bitter Moon

“Μην ξεχνάτε ωστόσο πως δεν αγαπάει κανείς τίποτα αν δεν αγαπάει τα πάντα.”
― Pascal Bruckner, Bitter Moon