Iliyana > Iliyana's Quotes

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Life itself is a quotation.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Sojourn

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
― Oscar Wilde

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

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Любов
Всяка нощ
да сънуваш жената
до която лежиш.”
― Георги Господинов, Балади и разпади

“Literature is news that stays news.”
― Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading

“Писателите са хирурзи на човешката душа. Те трябва да изрежат от нея всичко гнило и разложено.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Балади и разпади

“Неслучайно избрах глагола "саботирам". Не знаех нищо за етимологията му, но чувах в него думата "сабо" и мислех за моите тичащи крака.
Елена искаше да се "саботирам" за нея, тоест да се стъпча със собствените си крака.
Тичах и си представях, че земята е моето тяло и че го тъпча с дървени обувки, за да се подчиня на моята хубавица, и че ще го тъпча, докато изпадне в агония.
Усмихвах се на тази прекрасна перспектива и все по-усилено "саботирах", като минавах на по-голяма скорост.”
― Amélie Nothomb, Le Sabotage amoureux

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
― Charles Bukowski

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than too late”
― Charles Bukowski

“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
― Charles Bukowski

“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose”
― Charles Bukowski and Carl Weissner

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last