Carmen > Carmen's Quotes

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.”
― Sophocles

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”
― Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Selected Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay

“For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear in new forms and are songlike in their refrains and rhymes, making up a single monologue. We live permanently in the recurrence of our own stories, whatever story we tell.”
― Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”
― Abigail Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

“We are always the same age inside. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“So - whatever happened to you?'
'Life. Life happened.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Whatever happens tomorrow, we've had today.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“He thought how much he liked her and had in common with her, and how much she'd like and have in common with him if she only knew him.”
― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

“For six weeks, I allow Bath is pleasant enough; but beyond that, it is the most tiresome place in the world.”
― Jane Austen

“Fue el descubrimiento más importante de toda su vida. Sabía leer. Era poseedor del antídoto contra el ponzoñoso veneno de la vejez. Sabía leer.”
― Luis Sepúlveda, The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

“It was much better to share it with him; if he was a madman then at least they were crazy together.”
― Natasha Solomons, Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

“We must make haste, then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first.”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
― Walt Whitman

“Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“The meeting would be safe as a wedding.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”
― Rose Wilder Lane

“But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero