Stefan Michev > Stefan's Quotes

“.... в гръцката граматика - едно от първите неща, които научих - мъжете имат приятели, жените - роднини, а животните - себеподобни.”
― Дона Тарт, The Secret History

“Ще ни се да мислим, че в старата и изтъркана фраза amor vincit omnia има нещо вярно. Уви, ако съм научил нещо през краткия си живот, то е, че точно тази банална реплика е лъжа. Любовта не побеждава всичко.”
― Дона Тарт, The Secret History

“...нали болката е именно онази, която най-често ни напомня за Аз-а? Ужасно е, когато като дете разбереш, че си нещо съвсем отделно от всичко останало на света, че никой друг и нищо друго не изпитва болка от изгорения език или ожулените колене, че нашите болки и страдания са си само наши. Става още по-ужасно, когато пораснем и разберем, че няма същество, независимо от силата на любовта ни към него, което истински да ни разбере.”
― Дона Тарт, The Secret History

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely? To throw off the chains of being for an instant, to shatter the accident of our mortal selves? Euripides speaks of the Maenads: head thrown I back, throat to the stars, "more like deer than human being." To be absolutely free! One is quite capable, of course, of working out these destructive passions in more vulgar and less efficient ways. But how glorious to release them in a single burst! To sing, to scream, to dance barefoot in the woods in the dead of night, with no more awareness of mortality than an animal! These are powerful mysteries. The bellowing of bulls. Springs of honey bubbling from the ground. If we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones. Then spit us out reborn.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“One likes to think there's something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. But if I've learned one thing in my short sad life, it is that that particular platitude is a lie. Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“No good deed goes unpunished.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.”
― Machiavelli Niccolo, The Prince

“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

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The soul is healed by being with children.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied.
'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently.
'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
― Truman Capote

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Ние скитаме по света,
обикаляме глобуса и не забелязваме,
че човекът, когото търсим, е застанал до нас,
чака трамвая, както го чакам и аз.”
― Стефан Цанев

“You learn more from getting your butt kicked than getting it kissed.”
― Tom Hanks

“The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

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

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
― Charles Bukowski

“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
― Freidrich Neitzsche