Spirited Away > Spirited's Quotes

“The wolf had been trained by the man, or had trained himself unassisted, to divers wolfish arts, which swelled the receipts. "Above all things, do not degenerate into a man," his friend would say to him. Never did the wolf bite: the man did now and then. At least, to bite was the intent of Ursus. He was a misanthrope, and to italicize his misanthropy he had made himself a juggler. To live, also; for the stomach has to be consulted.”
― Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs

“How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. It has been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.”
― Hermann Hesse

“But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if
evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows
disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the
shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings.
Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because
of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“The only good human being is a dead one.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“He knew you can't really be strong until you can see a funny side of things.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“Life was nothing but endless torture. He no longer felt any pleasure watching the sun rise, his every waking moment was sour, ruining the taste of anything that could have brought him enjoyment. As he had never really felt that he was living, he was not afraid of death. He was even happy that, in death, he would find the sole proof that he had been alive.”
― Martin Page, How I Became Stupid

“Maybe we tried to leave as much memories of ourselves with each other because we knew one day we wouldn't be together any more.”
― Makoto Shinkai, 5 Centimeters per Second

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

“The maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that you could fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.”
― G.R.R. Martin

“იცოდე, თუ გსურს, გაიგო, შენს ირგვლივ მყოფთაგან ვინ როგორია, რაიმე ცუდი ჩაიდინე, ოღონდ ისეთი კი არა, ქვეყანა რომ დააქციო, არა, მცირედი, გაგიჭირდება თუ რა შენ ეს, გერასიმე - ხანდახან განგებ რაიმე სისულელე წამოროშე, მოკლედ, ილაპარაკე მოფიქრებულად და ვინც ყველაზე სულელია, ყველაზე მეტად გაიოცებს, ის წავა, მოჰყვება ათასგან შენსას, თავისი თავი რომ აღიმაღლოს, ანდა გერასიმე, ღმერთმა დაგვიფაროს და შენისთანა გამოსული კაცი უხამსი ფოტოსურათების შეგროვებას თუ დაიწყებ, ყველაზე მრუში ვინცაა, სხვების დასანახად ყველაზე მეტად ის აღშფოთდება, ეს იმიტომ, რომ რა ქნას... იმანაც - ჩვენ, ადამიანების დიდ უმეტესობას, რატომღაც გვინდა , მუდამ იმაზე უკეთესები ვჩანდეთ, ვიდრე სინამდვილეში ვაგდივართ. მაგრამ მსგავს შემთხვევებში მიუხედავად აღშფოთებისა, სინამდვილეში ვიყიდებით უფრო, ტკბილო.”
― გურამ დოჩანაშვილი

“სარწმუნეობა მე მესმის, როგორც შედეგი ადამიანის გონებრივის, სულიერი განვითარებისა და არა იმათი შუაზე გადალეწა-გადამტვრევისა და დასახიჩრებისა. ძალად შეიძლება მხოლოდ ფორმა შეათავსებინო ადამიანს, ფორმა სარწმუნოებისა, ხოლო ამ საშუალებით მის მართლომრწმუნედ გახდომა ყოვლად შეუძლებელია. დღეს სადა გვაქვს ჩვენ ნამდვილი ეკლესია? მიჩვენეთ თუნდ ერთი რომელიმე კუთხე საქართველოში მთასა, გინა ბარსა, ეკლესია ასრულებდეს ნამდვილს თავის დანიშნულებას? ძალიან ძნელია ამისთანა ეკლესიის პოვნა.ეს სატკივარი ჟამთა ვითარების ნაყოფია. დღევანდელი ჩვენი ეკლესია ფორმაში გამოიხატება, ხოლო მღვდლის სამსახური მარტო წესების ასრულებაში.”
― Vazha-Pshavela

“The greatest gift of life on the mountain is time. Time to think or not think, read or not read, scribble or not scribble -- to sleep and cook and walk in the woods, to sit and stare at the shapes of the hills. I produce nothing but words; I consumer nothing but food, a little propane, a little firewood. By being utterly useless in the calculations of the culture at large I become useful, at last, to myself.”
― Philip Connors, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009

“We met at the wrong time. That’s what I keep telling myself anyway. Maybe one day years from now, we’ll meet in a coffee shop in a far away city somewhere and we could give it another shot.”
― Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
― Gautama Buddha, Sayings of Buddha

“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but, rather, precisely those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“If one tries to run away from other people, one involuntarily ends up actually following in their path throughout the course of one’s life. Running away does not require knowing where one is running to, only what one is running from. Which means that one constantly has to carry before one’s eyes a vision of one’s own prison.”
― Victor Pelevin, Buddha's Little Finger