Beatriz > Beatriz's Quotes

“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
― Voltaire, Candide, or, Optimism

“The human heart will never wrinkle.”
― Madame de Sévigné, Letters of Madame de Sévigné to her Daughter and her Friends, Volume 2

“It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.”
― Ismail Kadare, Broken April

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.”
― Agostinho da Silva

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

“I am not a person to say the words out loud / I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page.”
― Keri Hulme

“Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“Written words can also sing.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Dreams in a Time of War

“Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”
― Czeslaw Milosz

“Saudade é a masturbação passiva dos que não sabem que a Natureza é suficientemente variada pra que não haja necessidade de voltar atrás.”
― José de Almada Negreiros, K4 O Quadrado Azul

“Quando eu nasci, as frases que hão-de salvar a humanidade já estavam todas escritas, só faltava uma coisa - salvar a humanidade.”
― José de Almada Negreiros, A Invenção do Dia Claro

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.”
― Voltaire, Candide