Quotes - Daniel (daniel_reads) Showing 1-30 of 99

#1

“I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: pretend

#2

“Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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#3

“We weep for the blood of a bird, but not for the blood of a fish. Blessed are those who have voice.”
― Mamoru Oshii

tags: empathy, ghost-in-the-shell, gits, philosophy

29 likes

#4

“I’ll never speak to God again.”
― Sylvia Plath

tags: death, depression

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#5

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden

4377 likes

#6

“I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

746 likes

#7

“People never notice anything.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden, obliviousness

1242 likes

#8

“I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

tags: happiness, intelligence

643 likes

#8

“Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: change, holden-caulfield, stasis

1589 likes

#10

“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

3070 likes

#11

“I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

3086 likes

#12

“I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth.I heard many things in hell.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

66 likes

#13

“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

34 likes

#14

“I smiled,—for what had I to fear?”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

28 likes

#15

“And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over acuteness of the senses?”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories

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#16

“Pestis eram vivus ... moriens tua mors ero - "Living, I was your plague ... dying, I shall be your death.”
― Martin Luther

65 likes

#17

“Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

tags: knowledge, memory

641 likes

#18

“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

2754 likes

#19

“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

tags: doubt, fear, terror, wonder

868 likes

#20

“There is a reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.”
― Bram Stoker

tags: bram-stoker, dracula, knowledge, reason, relate, relating-with-others, understand, understanding

12 likes

#21

“But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

77 likes

#22

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
― Bram Stoker

tags: dracula

2413 likes

#23

“I love the shade and the shadow, and would be alone with my thoughts when I may.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

tags: shadow, thoughts

14 likes

#24

“I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

117 likes

#25

“I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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#26

“It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

tags: dracula, horror

71 likes

#27

“I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

tags: mystery, women

79 likes

#28

“Faith, that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

tags: belief, faith

31 likes

#29

“Water sleeps, and the enemy is sleepless.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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#30

“Do not think that I am not sad, though I laugh.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

tags: dracula, sadness

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