Shreya > Shreya's Quotes

“I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost

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

“Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.”
― Margaret Mead

“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.”
― Sigmund Freud

“...for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“I’m trying to overcome my OCD by replacing my neurosis with three other letters.”
― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

“A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.”
― Harold Ramis

“Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation.”
― Renata Adler, Speedboat

“Humans appeared on a watery rock spinning around a ball of flames suspended in the middle of an endless ocean of nothing, and yet you still don't believe in a miracle like love?”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Life’s supposed to be hard. If your life is too easy, that means you’re doing it wrong.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“But whatever happened, I knew I’d always have this summer, and that first night on the pier under the stars, with the waves surging around us, when we both glowed. And armed with that, I was not afraid. This summer, and this life, had been a privilege. I was sure of that.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“They called death the great equalizer, and it was – because in the rearview mirror, everyone was a hero.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Comparison is the enemy of happiness,”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“And if you ever feel yourself losing your way again,Cooper,and find that you just can't get your shit together,just reach out and love someone.Love is the most adult action anyone can ever carry out in this emotionally-stunted world,and once you love,the rest will fall into place.It has to.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Why do all the movies end with the couple running off into the sunset? That’s so boring. Where are the sad stories? That’s why I like Saviour, you know. Life isn’t neat, it’s dirty. I like to be reminded that fucked up stuff exists. It gives me…feelings. Doesn’t feeling stuff, even if it’s bad, make you remember that you’re…I don’t know, alive?”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Because I, Summer Johnson, Purveyor of Pragmatism, Lover of Logic, Ultimate Believer in the Rational, and Person Who Was Maybe Going To Die Soon, wanted to drown in someone.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Sometimes I just wonder,like,how could anyone else possibly be this lost,too?!Sometimes the words are so beautiful and true and unsettling I just want to hug my book and make sure nobody else in the world ever reads those words,because they are mine,Goddamnit,and they apply to me, and damn it if anyone else is going to steal my words and plug them into their lives!”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“But for every epic love tale splashed out in lights for the world to see, there were ten million more couples that loved each other in the dark just as beautifully.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“if a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Love is the most adult action anyone could ever carry out in this emotionally stunted world, and once you love, the rest will fall into place. It has to.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Everyone has issues. The key is finding someone whose issues mesh well with your issues.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Hi. My name is Cooper Nichols, and I am absolutely swimming in love with a girl named Summer Johnson.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“The first thing I thought when I saw her was “Oh, fuck.” Forgive me, Lord, for I wanted to jump that girl’s bones immediately.”
― Seth King, The Goode Fight

“We don't get to choose how much time we get in this life, but we do get to choose how we spend it.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers

“I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.”
― Aleister Crowley, Moonchild