Laura Scott > Laura's Quotes

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
― Albert Einstein

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”
― Olin Miller

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
― Jack Kerouac

“My witness is the empty sky.”
― Jack Kerouac

“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

“If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

“I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“I was more alone than if I had been alone.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Darling,
You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I am writing you this letter, or what this letter is supposed to be about, but I am writing it nonetheless, because I love you very much and trust that you have some good purpose for having me write this letter. I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
Your father”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“...only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them....”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“...people with nothing to declare carry the most.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone ever make love?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.”
― Elie Wiesel

“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must — at that moment — become the center of the universe.”
― Elie Wiesel