SA!RA > SA!RA's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 199

« previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 next »

like

#1

“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: romantic

4110 likes

like

#2

“You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.”
― Yoko Ono

tags: imagination, ono, small, universe, world, yoko

250 likes

like

#3

“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: love, romance, romantic, sentimentality

3508 likes

like

#4

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude

11834 likes

like

#5

“Longed for him. Got him. Shit.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: disappointment, marriage

1405 likes

like

#6

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude

4945 likes

like

#7

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

92174 likes

like

#8

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: friendship, love

23056 likes

like

#9

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life

21174 likes

like

#10

“Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
"After all this time?"
"Always," said Snape.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: dumbledore, life, love, snape

19269 likes

like

#11

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: humans, pain, scars

18081 likes

like

#12

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational

20090 likes

like

#13

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

17085 likes

like

#14

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth

16292 likes

like

#15

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

20164 likes

like

#16

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

14694 likes

like

#17

“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: johngreen, lookingforalaska

13167 likes

like

#18

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
― John Green

tags: vlog

11066 likes

like

#19

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

tags: love, mr-darcy

12379 likes

like

#20

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: friends-betrayal

10309 likes

like

#21

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, writing

9636 likes

like

#22

“You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!"
"What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: fred-weasley, george-weasley, ron-weasley

8776 likes

like

#23

“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: unrequited-love

8557 likes

like

#24

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity

9118 likes

like

#25

“May I see you again?" he asked. There was an endearing nervousness in his voice.

I smiled. "Sure."

"Tomorrow?" he asked.

"Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager.

"Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow." I rolled my eyes. "I'm serious," he said.

"You don't even know me," I said. I grabbed the book from the center console. "How about I call you when I finish this?"

"But you don't even have my phone number," he said.

"I strongly suspect you wrote it in this book."

He broke out into that goofy smile. "And you say we don't know each other.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

7975 likes

like

#26

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: sin

10907 likes

like

#27

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

8845 likes

like

#28

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: saint-sinner

8926 likes

like

#29

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational-love, misattributed

9601 likes

like

#30

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: age

8464 likes

« previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 next »

All Quotes

Tags From SA!RA’s Quotes

romantic
imagination
ono
small
universe
world
yoko
love
romance
sentimentality
disappointment
loneliness
loner
solitude
marriage
ataraxy
defiance
empowerment
independence
individuality
self-assurance
self-awareness
self-containment
self-determination
self-esteem
self-reliance
self-respect
self-sufficiency
self-trust
lies
lying
memory
truth
friendship
calvin-and-hobbes
humor
life
dumbledore
snape
humans
pain
scars
inspirational
misattributed-mark-twain
books
morality
reading
johngreen
lookingforalaska
vlog
mr-darcy
friends-betrayal
writing
fred-weasley
george-weasley
ron-weasley
unrequited-love
self-responsibility
timidity
sin
saint-sinner
inspirational-love
misattributed
age