Barbara > Barbara's Quotes

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
― Jane Austen

“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“Reading is probably another way of being in a place.”
― José Saramago, El hombre duplicado

“Conventionality is not morality.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Dupla Delícia

O livro traz a vantagem de a gente poder estar só e ao mesmo tempo acompanhado.”
― Mario Quintana

“O pior dos problemas da gente é que ninguém tem nada com isso.”
― Mario Quintana

“A esperança é um urubu pintado de verde.”
― Mario Quintana

“To pray shows a lack of faith. Our Lord, supposedly, knows what He's doing”
― Mario Quintana

“This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
― George Carlin

“Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I often carry things to read
so that I will not have to look at
the people.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems

“I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
― W.B. Yeats

“No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.”
― Edward St. Aubyn

“The claim that every man kills the thing he loves seemed to him a wild guess compared with the near certainty of a man turning into the thing he hates.”
― Edward St Aubyn

“She was ghastly and quite mad, but when I grew up I figured her worst punishment was to be herself and I didn't have to do anything more.”
― Edward St Aubyn, Some Hope

“How could he think his way out of the problem when the problem was the way he thought...”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Bad News

“Nobody ever died of a feeling, he would say to himself, not believing a word of it, as he sweated his way through the feeling that he was dying of fear. People died of feelings all the time, once they had gone through the formality of materializing them into bullets and bottles and tumours.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Mother's Milk

“I find everything boring, therefore I'm fascinating.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, The Complete Patrick Melrose Novels

“They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.”
― Philip Larkin, High Windows