Elena > Elena's Quotes

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Millions saw the apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why?”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face,I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you, Meredith, and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, A Lick of Frost

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
― Mae West

“A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.”
― Mae West

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
― Woody Allen

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
― John Lennon

“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

“Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“I've got nothing to do today but smile.”
― Simon and Garfunkel

“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

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche