2026 Reading Challenge

Davis Muhly > Davis's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 442
« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 14 15
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: sleep
    9532 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Never confuse movement with action.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: action, progress
    1594 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    1644 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Ernest Hemingway
    “You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    652 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything. ”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    707 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Walt Whitman
    “Do I contradict myself?
    Very well then I contradict myself,
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: change
    3850 likes

    • like
  • #7
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: inspirational, women
    10682 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Marilyn Monroe
    “No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: beauty, girls
    6877 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Socrates
    “Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
    ― Socrates
    1155 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Plato
    “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
    ― Plato
    tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance
    4318 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Plato
    “There is truth in wine and children”
    ― Plato, Symposium / Phaedrus
    tags: aphorism
    724 likes

    • like
  • #12
    “Being a true bad ass has no weight or gender requirement - just 100% commitment to greatness.”
    ― Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
    tags: inspirational
    12 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    4466 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why
    5820 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: love, madness
    7271 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way
    6753 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: lies, lying, trust
    31595 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
    34015 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
    74334 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    2337 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: battle-of-the-sexes, gender-stereotypes
    1023 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “All I need is a sheet of paper
    and something to write with, and then
    I can turn the world upside down.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: writing
    1142 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: goals-in-life, purpose-of-life
    2956 likes

    • like
  • #24
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    5519 likes

    • like
  • #25
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: f-scott-fitzgerald
    5879 likes

    • like
  • #26
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: affection, amity, love
    4067 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Robert Frost
    “We love the things we love for what they are.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: love, poetry
    11828 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Robert Frost
    “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”
    ― Robert Frost
    7189 likes

    • like
  • #29
    Robert Frost
    “If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: laughter
    3013 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Robert Frost
    “Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
    And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: humor, poetry, religion
    3238 likes



Rss
« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 14 15
All Quotes



Tags From Davis’s Quotes

sleep
action
progress
change
inspirational
women
beauty
girls
darkness
dishonesty
fear
light
willful-ignorance
aphorism
how
life
purpose
questioning
questions
why
love
madness
amorality
correct-way
individuality
my-way
only-way
right-way
the-way
your-way
lies
lying
trust
paraphrased
strength
music
philosophy
battle-of-the-sexes
gender-stereotypes
writing
goals-in-life
purpose-of-life
f-scott-fitzgerald
affection
amity
poetry
laughter
humor
religion