Quotes - Torbjörn Krook (Torbjrn) (Gothenburg, Sweden) Showing 1-30 of 348

#1

“We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.”
― Martin Luther

tags: christianity, faith, inspirational, religion

#2

“So when the devil throws your sins in your face and declares that you deserve death and hell, tell him this: "I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also!”
― Martin Luther

tags: christianity

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#3

“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.”
― Martin Luther

tags: inspirational, music, power-of-music

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#4

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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#5

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: meaning-of-life

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#6

“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa, Poems

tags: blossoms, cherry-blossoms, haiku, japan, life, poetry, spring

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#7

“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings

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#8

“I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

tags: incidental, life, love

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#9

“I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

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#10

“I don’t suppose I really know you very well - but I know you smell like the delicious damp grass that grows near old walls and that your hands are beautiful opening out of your sleeves and that the back of your head is a mossy sheltered cave when there is trouble in the wind and that my cheek just fits the depression in your shoulder.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

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#11

“I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

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#12

“It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

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#13

“I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

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#14

“Literature is news that stays news.”
― Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading

tags: books, literature, reading

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#15

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

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#16

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

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#17

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#18

“For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.”
― Halldór Laxness

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#19

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

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#20

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche

tags: epitaph, first-sentence, great-first-lines, laughter, literary, merriment, opening-lines

2132 likes

#21

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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#22

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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#23

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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#24

“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
― Thomas Pynchon

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#25

“The world's perverse, but it could be worse.”
― Mona Van Duyn

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#26

“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

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