Mariam > Mariam's Quotes

“How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow

“I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view. ”
― Allen Ginsberg

“As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

“If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

“The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
― Victor Hugo

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

“Три вещи может сделать женщина для русского писателя. Она может кормить его. Она может искренне поверить в его гениальность. И наконец, женщина может оставить его в покое. Кстати, третье не исключает второго и первого.”
― Сергей Довлатов, The Suitcase

“Humans, not places, make memories.”
― Ama Ata Aidoo

“sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.”
― David Foster Wallace

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
― John Muir

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth…These are the things to fear…”
― Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

“When everyone else is losing their heads, it is important to keep yours.”
― Marie Antoinette

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

“To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”
― Lao Tse

“Իմացեր եմ, որ 1906 թվին Փարիզի մեջ Կոմիտասի ցուցադրական մեկ համերգեն վերջ, ֆրանսիացի հայտնի կոմպոզիտոր-դաշնակահար Կլոդ Դեբյուսին ծունկի գալով կհամբուրե Կոմիտասի ձեռքերը, ըսելով՝ «Հանճարեղ հայր Կոմիտաս, Ձեր երաժշտական հանճարին առջև կխոնարհիմ…»:”
― Anonymous

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“My father used to say that we had another life in the sky. Our world had a reflection, like a mirror. And each of us had a double living in the world in the sky. The people there slept during the day and woke up at night. They felt cold in the heat and got hot in the cold. They couldn’t see when it was light but could make out the furthest object in the dark. The men in this world were women there, while the women were men. They didn’t take life seriously, but attached great importance to dreams. They liked hugging strangers. They weren’t ashamed of being poor, but of being rich. For them laughing was crying, while crying was laughing. When someone died they sang songs and danced. When I was a child I often stared at the sky to try and catch a glimpse of my other self. I wondered what I was like in that other life.”
― Burhan Sönmez, Istanbul Istanbul

“To my wife Marganit and my children Ella Rose and Daniel Adam without whom this book would have been completed two years earlier.”
― Joseph J. Rotman, An Introduction to Algebraic Topology