Aleksandra > Aleksandra's Quotes

“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”
― Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses

“I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens.
I've been knocking from the inside.”
― Rumi

“— Ама какво да правя, господин професоре, вече съм взела билетите.
— Ами ще отидете с мъжа си. Той обича ли балет?
— Обожава го.
— Тогава не го водете!… Той трябва да обожава само вас.”
― Павел Вежинов, Нощем с белите коне

“The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. And that's the theory. Nine hundred years, never seen one yet, but this would do me.”
― Steven Moffat

“Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Ако иска да скочи човек в някаква бездна, трябва да го направи веднага. Или никога.”
― Павел Вежинов, Везни

“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

“And what would humans be without love?"
RARE, said Death.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.”
― Montesquieu

“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov