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  • #1
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #2
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #3
    Henry James
    “Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.”
    Henry James

  • #4
    John Steinbeck
    “Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #5
    Charles Bukowski
    “I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”
    Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

  • #6
    Albert Camus
    “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

    And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
    Albert Camus

  • #7
    Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
    “Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
    Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, A Life For A Life

  • #8
    “Only boring people get bored.”
    Ruth Burke

  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #10
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power—he's free again.”
    Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Двести лет вместе

  • #11
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “J'aime bien les couchers de soleil. Allons voir un coucher de soleil...”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #12
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “I am offered the Grand Inquisitor's choice. Will you choose freedom without happiness, or happiness without freedom? The only answer one can make, I think, is: No.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

  • #13
    Henry James
    “I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.”
    Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
    tags: love

  • #14
    Henry James
    “Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.”
    Henry James, Theory of Fiction: Henry James

  • #15
    Frank O'Hara
    “Having a Coke with You

    is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne
    or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona
    partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastian
    partly because of my love for you, partly because of your love for yoghurt
    partly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birches
    partly because of the secrecy our smiles take on before people and statuary
    it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still
    as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it
    in the warm New York 4 o’clock light we are drifting back and forth
    between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles

    and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paint
    you suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did them

    I look
    at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world
    except possibly for the Polish Rider occasionally and anyway it’s in the Frick
    which thank heavens you haven’t gone to yet so we can go together the first time
    and the fact that you move so beautifully more or less takes care of Futurism
    just as at home I never think of the Nude Descending a Staircase or
    at a rehearsal a single drawing of Leonardo or Michelangelo that used to wow me
    and what good does all the research of the Impressionists do them
    when they never got the right person to stand near the tree when the sun sank
    or for that matter Marino Marini when he didn’t pick the rider as carefully
    as the horse

    it seems they were all cheated of some marvelous experience
    which is not going to go wasted on me which is why I am telling you about it”
    Frank O'Hara

  • #16
    Franz Kafka
    “I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.”
    Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

  • #17
    نزار قباني
    “أرقى النفوس هي التي تجرعت الألم فتجنبت أن تذيق الآخرين مرارته

    -

    The finest souls are those who gulped pain and avoided making others taste it.”
    Nizar Qabbani

  • #18
    Philip Larkin
    “Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back”
    Philip Larkin

  • #19
    Ezra Pound
    “And the days are not full enough
    And the nights are not full enough
    And life slips by like a field mouse
    Not shaking the grass”
    Ezra Pound

  • #20
    Knut Hamsun
    “I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by all. I put my legs up on the bench and leaned back, the best way to feel the true well-being of seclusion. There wasn't a cloud in my mind, nor did I feel any discomfort, and I hadn't a single unfulfilled desire or craving as far as my thought could reach. I lay with open eyes in a state of utter absence from myself and felt deliciously out of it.”
    Knut Hamsun, Hunger

  • #21
    Wyndham Lewis
    “Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.”
    Wyndham Lewis

  • #22
    Alejandra Pizarnik
    “Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors”
    Alejandra Pizarnik

  • #23
    Yevgeny Zamyatin
    “I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn't it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness?”
    Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

  • #24
    George Seferis
    “souls shriveled by public sins, each holding office like a bird in its cage”
    Giorgos Seferis

  • #25
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.”
    Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • #26
    Walt Whitman
    “I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .
    The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires
    shall duly flame again.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #27
    Walt Whitman
    “Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
    You must travel it by yourself.
    It is not far. It is within reach.
    Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
    Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #29
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”
    Viktor E. Frankl

  • #30
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I want to talk about everything with at least one person as I talk about things with myself.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot



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