Danny Smith > Danny's Quotes

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
― Colette

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
― sylvia plath

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

“As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Rose & the Dagger

“An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.”
― François-René de Chateaubriand, The Genius of Christianity or the Spirit and Beauty of the Christian Religion

“Live to the point of tears.”
― Albert Camus

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

“The stupid things you do in life are the most beautiful.”
― Brigid Pasulka, A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”
― Charles Dickens

“I am not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
― Henry Miller

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns