Grace > Grace's Quotes

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.”
― Henry Stanley Haskins, Meditations in Wall Street

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

“I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”
― Kurt Cobain

“Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?”
― Kurt Cobain

“Nobody dies a virgin... Life fucks us all.”
― Kurt Cobain

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.”
― James Dean

“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
― Che Guevara

“I counted the days. I marked them off on the wall with a piece of coal.”
― Uri Orlev

“I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.”
― Jack Kerouac

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Silence is argument carried out by other means.”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“Who said nights were for sleep?”
― Marilyn Monroe

“If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“La historia me absolverá!”
― Fidel Castro

“It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.”
― Marcel Proust

“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”
― Henry Brooks Adams

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
― Aldous Huxley

“I like being myself. Myself and nasty.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.”
― Marcel Proust

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984