Mati Dova > Mati's Quotes

“Ανθρώπους ψάχνουμε όχι ιδεολογίες,
Ανθρώπους που να 'χουν θάρρος, αγάπη, καλοσύνη.
Ανθρώπους που δεν είναι ψεύτες, ρηχοί και βολεμένοι και ξέρουν να δίνουνε,
όχι να ρουφάν και να εκμεταλλεύονται τους γύρω.
Ανθρώπους έστω με καρδιά. Κι ας είναι δικηγόροι, παπάδες και αστυνόμοι. Κι ας είναι και χαφιέδες, κομουνιστές, αναρχικοί,
αρκεί να έχουν τόλμη να κρατήσουν ένα λόγο και να πούνε την αλήθεια.”
― Νικόλας Άσιμος

“... and she loved a boy very, very much-- even more than she loved herself.”
― Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.”
― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City

“I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
― anthony burgess

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.”
― Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“I've never looked forward before. I've always looked back. I think about the past way too much and I think about what I should have done and everything I did wrong and I've never once looked forward in my life.”
― Colleen Hoover, Losing Hope

“A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

“Αν ξαναρχόμουν στον κόσμο θα ερχόμουν μόνο για να κάνω έρωτα και να φύγω. Και για το μόνο που θα λυπηθώ όταν θα φύγω, θα ‘ναι για τον έρωτα που θα χάσω, για τα πρόσωπα που δεν θα γνωρίσω. Όλα τα άλλα είναι αστεία. Τέλειωσαν οι εποχές που ένας άνθρωπος μπορούσε ν’ αντικαταστήσει τον ερωτικό του σύντροφο με μια συμφωνία του Μπετόβεν. Αυτά ανήκουν στο 19ο αιώνα. Σήμερα, ένας άνθρωπος που προβαίνει σε τέτοιες αντικαταστάσεις είναι μάλλον ύποπτος ψυχολογικών διαταραχών και μιας νοημοσύνης η οποία ακουμπάει την παρανοϊκότητα.”
― Μάνος Χατζιδάκις

“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
― Deepak Chopra

“I’m going to tell you something: thoughts are never honest. Emotions are.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959

“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
― James Burke

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
― Neil Gaiman

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

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“I am not a person to say the words out loud / I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page.”
― Keri Hulme