Sophie > Sophie's Quotes

“First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.”
― Epictetus

“One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted —
One need not be a House —
The Brain has Corridors — surpassing
Material Place —”
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems

“I confused things with their names: that is belief.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre

“…we're twins, and so we love each other more than other people…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Men

“Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
― T.S. Eliot

“But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved. And if it wasn't there, as for example with Phineas, then I put it there myself.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“My father said that love at first sight should send you running, if you know what's good for you. It's your dark pieces having instant recognition with their dark pieces, he says. You're an idiot if you think it means you've met your soul mate. So I was an idiot.”
― Deb Caletti, Stay

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“That's the terrible thing about being a woman. It's the waiting. You can never take what you want, as a man can, but you must wait for it to be given to you. All your life spent in coaxing, wheedling, fawning, pandering, enticing, stimulating, flirting—all in the petty roundabout ways a woman must travel to reach her goal.”
― Kathleen Winsor, Jacintha