Quotes - Anwar Mohamed (Maidenhead, P9, The United Kingdom) Showing 1-30 of 229

#1

“Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

tags: explanation, love, mystery

325 likes

#2

“The more real you get the more unreal the world gets. ”
― John Lennon

tags: reality

478 likes

#3

“If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.”
― Charles Bukowski

282 likes

#4

“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: sex

2229 likes

#5

“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so? ”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

883 likes

#6

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality

7366 likes

#7

“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
― Jean Paul

1414 likes

#8

“Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.”
― Charles Bukowski

475 likes

#9

“How alone everyone is in the vast tomb of the universe!”
― Jean Paul

tags: alone, atheism, life, universe

44 likes

#10

“Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.
some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
some lose both and become accepted”
― Charles Bukowski

3751 likes

#11

“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. ”
― Pearl S. Buck

366 likes

#12

“Every man has but one destiny”
― Mario Puzo

26 likes

#13

“Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom-love-happiness.”
― Charles Bukowski

661 likes

#14

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
― Voltaire

2778 likes

#15

“Dare to think for yourself.”
― Voltaire

tags: freedom-of-thought

1145 likes

#17

“Common sense is not so common.”
― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

tags: apothegm, common-sense

1841 likes

#18

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

tags: answers, man, questions, thinking

4627 likes

#19

“Fas est ab hoste doceri.
One should learn even from one's enemies.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

tags: ancient, latin, philosophy

385 likes

#20

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
― Anais Nin

tags: courage, life

4307 likes

#21

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing

9970 likes

#22

“I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”
― Kurt Cobain

tags: inspirational

2802 likes

#23

“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
― Joan Crawford

5678 likes

#24

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

tags: greatness

12749 likes

#25

“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

tags: paraphrase-of-congreve

15963 likes

#26

“The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.”
― Yves Saint Laurent

tags: cosmetics, fashion, makeup, women

2225 likes

#27

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

tags: love

24156 likes

#28

“Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: buddhism, simile

17 likes

#29

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: essential, happiness, love

30825 likes

#30

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: inspirational, life, yourself

27291 likes

#31

“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

tags: beauty, inspirational

1065 likes

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