Quotes - Hannah (Calgary, AB, Canada) Showing 1-30 of 271

#1

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#2

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#3

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

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#4

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

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#5

“A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”
― Wole Soyinka

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#6

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

tags: books, reading

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#7

“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

tags: power-of-words

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#8

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
― William Wordsworth

tags: on-writing, writing, writing-from-the-heart

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#9

“Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
― C. J. Cherryh

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#10

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
― Ray Bradbury

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#11

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

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#12

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

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#13

“There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

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#14

“There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.”
― Ann Rule

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#15

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

tags: friendship, literature

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#16

“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

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#17

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

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#18

“I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

tags: insanity, sanity

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#19

“Know yourself and go in swinging.”
― Patrick Ness, More Than This

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#20

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

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#21

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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#22

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

tags: grudges

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#23

“I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

tags: conversation, depression, fear, life, speaking, words

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#24

“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

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#25