Quotes - Per Leon (Trondheim, 16, Norway) Showing 1-30 of 341

#1

“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”
― Margaret Drabble

tags: wisdom

2047 likes

#2

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

39243 likes

#3

“You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?"
"A long one?”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

tags: mortal-instruments

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#4

“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

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#5

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: flight, flying, inspirational

4362 likes

#6

“Time is
Too Slow for those who Wait,
Too Swift for those who Fear,
Too Long for those who Grieve,
Too Short for those who Rejoice;
But for those who Love,
Time is not.”
― Henry van Dyke, Music and Other Poems

3743 likes

#7

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

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#8

“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star.
It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.
Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

tags: longing, love

3726 likes

#9

“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: romantic

4111 likes

#10

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
― Confucius

tags: education, inspirational, life, perseverance

3556 likes

#11

“Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Two Much

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#12

“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: death

2707 likes

#13

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
― Bob Newhart

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#14

“How long was I asleep?" she whispered. He didn't respond.
"How long was I asleep?" she asked again, and noticed a hint of red in his cheeks.
"You were asleep, too?"
"Until you began drooling on my shoulder.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

tags: celaena-sardothien, chaol-westfall, throne-of-glass

2621 likes

#15

“Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
― Walker Evans

1893 likes

#16

“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

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#17

“It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.”
― Roald Dahl, The Witches

tags: love

1675 likes

#18

“You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: smile

1502 likes

#19

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
― Mark Twain

1681 likes

#20

“Alice: How long is forever?
White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.”
― Lewis Carroll

tags: alice-in-wonderland

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#21

“Never is an awfully long time.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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#22

“There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: psychology

1406 likes

#23

“You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.”
― Lou Holtz

tags: inspiration, motivation

1175 likes

#24

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

tags: freedom, solitude

2288 likes

#25

“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: pain

1708 likes

#26

“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”
― Jean Genet

tags: darkness, dreams, time

1178 likes

#27

“In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank

tags: inspirational

1331 likes

#28

“I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.”
― David Sedaris, Naked

tags: changing-others

990 likes

#29

“Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

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#30

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
― Jack Kerouac

tags: failure, passion

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