Andrew H > Andrew's Quotes

“Do not fall in love with people like me.
I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.
I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.”
― Caitlyn Siehl, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“From our deepest wounds come our greatest gifts.”
― Po Bronson, What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“You want to know where your fears are hiding? Tell me what you know about yourself. Tell me what you can't live without.”
― Po Bronson, What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question

“A calling is not something you know, it's something you grow into, through trials and mistakes... Attack your fears, rather than shy away from them. Bring what you do in alignment with who you are...Failure's hard, but success at the wrong thing can lock you in forever.”
― Po Bronson, What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question

“Sigmund Freud... said that as we grow up in society, we internalize the social virtues. This internalization leads to the development of the superego. In general, the superego is pleased when we comply with society's ethics, and unhappy when we don't. This is why we stop the car at 4 AM at a red...”
― Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

“We usually think of ourselves as sitting in the driver's seat, with the ultimate control over the decisions we make and the direction our life takes; but, alas, this perception has more to do with our desires--- with how we want to view ourselves--than with reality.”
― Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

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

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.'

'In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.'

'All right then,' said the Savage defiantly, 'I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.'

'Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.' There was a long silence.

'I claim them all,' said the Savage at last.

Mustapha Mond shrugged his shoulders. 'You're welcome," he said.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Degrade him from what position? As a happy, hard-working, goods-consuming citizen he's perfect. Of course, if you choose some other standard than ours, then perhaps you might say he was degraded. But you've got to stick to one set of postulates. You can't play Electro-magnetic Golf according to rules of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy.”
― Aldous Huxley

“He's foredoomed”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I am I, and I wish I wasn't.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“To say that we actually believed in vampires or werewolves would be a carelessly inclusive statement. Rather must it be said that we were not prepared to deny the possibility of certain unfamiliar and unclassified modifications of vital force and attenuated matter; existing very infrequently in three-dimensional space because of its more intimate connexion with other spatial units, yet close enough to the boundary of our own to furnish us occasional manifestations which we, for lack of a proper vantage-point, may never hope to understand.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Complete Collection

“Mark Twain said a novel was a confession to everything by a man who had never done anything.”
― Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot

“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
― Stephen King

“The basis of all human fears, he thought. A closed door, slightly ajar.”
― Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot

“Man is the only animal who blushes...or needs to.”
― Mark Twain

“It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.”
― Charles Dickens

“Bohr also argued that the very word "observer" is wrong because it conjures up a picture of an external viewer separated from the world that is being watched. A photographer... may capture the natural beauty of the Yosemite wilderness, but is it really untouched by man? How can it be if the photographer himself is there too? The real picture is of a man standing within nature not separate from it.”
― Joanne Baker, 50 Quantum Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know

“...there is no right or wrong way to do things: there is only the way we end up doing them.”
― Bryony Gordon, No Such Thing as Normal

“That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Scattered wits take a long time picking up; and often, before I had got them well together, they would be dispersed in all directions by one stray thought...”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Bear in mind then, that Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Put me aside for ever - you have done so, I will know, but bestow yourself on some worthier person than Drummle. Miss Havisham gives you to him, as the greatest slight and injury that could be done to the many far better men who admire you, and to the few who truly love you. Among those few, there may be one who loves you even as dearly, though he has not loved you as long, as I. Take him, and I can bear it better, for your sake!”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations