Amir Khaled > Amir's Quotes

“It is only the sacred things that are worth touching”
― Oscar Wilde

“Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde

“There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!”
― Oscar Wilde

“Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.”
― Victor Hugo

“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas. a”
― Victor Hugo, History of a Crime: Deposition of a Witness

“Your rank and wealth, Harry; my brains, such as they are—my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray’s good looks—we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at creating around it an absolute uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognises infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There are only two ways, as you know, of becoming civilized. One is by being cultured, the other is by being corrupt.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Oh my dear fellow...should you not be askind, 'Would the tea like the cup?”
― Oscar Wilde

“The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Secret to remain young is to have an inordinate passion for pleasure.”
― Oscar Wilde

“To tell people what to read is, as a rule, either useless or harmful; for the appreciation of literature is a question of temperament not of teaching; to Parnassus there is no primer and nothing that one can learn is ever worth learning.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde

“Sweet, there is nothing left to say
But this, that love is never lost”
― Oscar Wilde, Poems

“For he to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives. To realise the nineteenth century, one must realise every century that has preceded it and that has contributed to its making. To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“The only things that one can use in fiction are the things that one has ceased to use in fact.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Lots of people act well, but very few people talk well, which shows that talking is
much the more difficult thing of the two, and much the finer thing also.”
― Oscar Wilde

“When they entered they found, hanging upon the wall, a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognised who it was.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“When first I was put into prison some people advised me to try and forget who I was. It was ruinous advice. It is only by realising what I am that I have found comfort of any kind. Now I am advised by others to try on my release to forget that I have ever been in a prison at all. I know that would be equally fatal. It would mean that I would always be haunted by an intolerable sense of disgrace, and that those things that are meant for me as much as for anybody else - the beauty of the sun and moon, the pageant of the seasons, the music of daybreak and the silence of great nights, the rain falling through the leaves, or the dew creeping over the grass and making it silver - would all be tainted for me, and lose their healing power, and their power of communicating joy. To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“The basis of every scandal is immoral certainty.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating--people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“How simple life is. It's as simple as this: you're hungry and you eat, you're full and you shit. Between eating and shitting, that's where human life is found. - (Houseboy + Maid, in Tales from Djakarta)”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Tales from Djakarta: Caricatures of Circumstances and their Human Beings

“Jangan sebut aku perempuan sejati jika hidup hanya berkalang lelaki. Tapi bukan berarti aku tidak butuh lelaki untuk aku cintai. (Nyai Ontosoroh)”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Bumi Manusia

“Dan alangkah indah kehidupan tanpa merangkak-rangkak di hadapan orang lain”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer

“Hidup sungguh sangat sederhana. Yang hebat-hebat hanya tafsirannya.”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, House of Glass

“Kehidupan ini seimbang, Tuan. Barangsiapa hanya memandang pada keceriaannya saja, dia orang gila. Barangsiapa memandang pada penderitaannya saja, dia sakit.”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Child of All Nations

“Orang boleh pandai setinggi langit, tapi selama ia tak menulis, ia akan hilang di dalam masyarakat dan dari sejarah.”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, House of Glass

“Kalau mati, dengan berani; kalau hidup, dengan berani. Kalau keberanian tidak ada, itulah sebabnya setiap bangsa asing bisa jajah kita.”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer

“Barang siapa mempunyai sumbangan pada kemanusian dia tetap terhormat sepanjang jaman, bukan kehormatan sementara. Mungkin orang itu tidak mendapatkan sesuatu sukses dalam hidupnya, mungkin dia tidak mempunyai sahabat, mungkin tak mempunyai kekuasaan barang secuwil pun. Namun umat manusia akan menghormati karena jasa-jasanya.”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Nyanyi Sunyi Seorang Bisu 2