Hazel > Hazel's Quotes

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.”
― Paul Auster

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.”
― Cormac McCarthy

“Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.”
― Frank Zappa

“- Децата ни гледат през цялото време... те те виждат какъв си наистина. Ти мислиш как ще им четеш приказки, каква музика ще им пускаш... Как ще им се посветиш. Ама не става така. В крайна сметка нямаш време за никакво специално отношение. Те са си като част от живота ти, като всичко останало. И с тях ти си си какъвто си си. Те са свидетели на твоята истинска същност, а не Господ. Те те гледат непрекъснато, а не Господ. Те те изкушават, те те предизвикват да се ядосаш и да станеш лош... и да ги удариш. Ако се поддадеш и ги удариш? Ако съгрешиш? И ги превърнеш в лоши деца... и си продължил злото в живота... на още едно поколение. Те са ти Божието наказание и Божието опрощение. Ако си добър и забравиш себе си и своя яд, и не ги удариш... ако се отдадеш безкористно на децата си, те са твоето опрощение в тоя живот. Не Бог. Те са твоят Бог.
”
― Георги Илиев

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“...disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business....”
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“- И още, че при вас водят и владеят не най-умните, ами най… - граморът се мъчеше да намери подходяща дума. - Най такива… дето като хищници гладни са. Дето срам нямат. Дето всичкото правят тъй, сякаш земя, въздух, вода, живинки всякакви и другите хора в шепата им са? Сякаш взели са го от бащите свои, наместо да знаят и помнят, че държат го на заем от децата свои?
Радослав се радваше, че е тъмно и че е длъжен да гледа навън, а не в лицето на другаря си…
- Уви, така е. С малки изключения… които не траят дълго. Но се стараем.
- Не разумявам. Хора такива никак ум нямат. Как тогаз само глупости не вършат и не излагат се, та накрая да ги изпъди племето тяхно?
- Карат умните да мислят вместо тях.
- Как тъй? - учуди се Пагар.
- По-силни са. С големи юмруци. С много… неща, от които останалите имат нужда, и те ги раздават според това кой им се покорява. Владеят страха на хората, разбираш ли?”
― Николай Теллалов, Слънце недосегаемо

“Без любов от днес нататък ще живея.
Независима от телефон и случай.
Няма да боли. И няма да копнея.
Ставам вързан вятър и замръзнал ручей.
Няма да съм бледна подир нощ безсънна -
но и няма да ми запламти лицето.
Няма вдън земя от мъка да потъна -
но и няма да политна към небето.
Няма да съм лоша - но и няма вече
жест като безкраен хоризонт да сторя.
Няма да ми притъмнява - но далече
няма да ми се отваря цял простора.
Няма вечерта да чакам изтомена -
но и утрото за мен не ще изгрява.
Няма от слова да зъзна вкочанена -
но и няма да изгарям над жарава.
Няма да заплача на жестоко рамо -
но и няма от сърце да се засмея.
Няма да умирам аз от поглед само -
но и всъщност няма вече да живея.”
― Blaga Dimitrova

“We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.

We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.

We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.

We work with being,
but non-being is what we use.”
― Lao Tzu

“Despair is for people who know, beyond any doubt, what the future is going to bring. Nobody is in that position. So despair is not only a kind of sin, theologically, but also a simple mistake, because nobody actually knows. In that sense there is always hope.”
― Patrick Curry, Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity – Essential Literary Criticism on Spirit, Ecology, and Ethics for Fans

“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

“But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“I sit beside the fire and think
Of all that I have seen
Of meadow flowers and butterflies
In summers that have been

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
In autumns that there were
With morning mist and silver sun
And wind upon my hair

I sit beside the fire and think
Of how the world will be
When winter comes without a spring
That I shall ever see

For still there are so many things
That I have never seen
In every wood in every spring
There is a different green

I sit beside the fire and think
Of people long ago
And people that will see a world
That I shall never know

But all the while I sit and think
Of times there were before
I listen for returning feet
And voices at the door”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84