Victoria > Victoria's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 519
« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 17 18
sort by

  • #1
    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
    in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
    Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

  • #2
    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

  • #3
    Walt Whitman
    “Resist much, obey little.”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #4
    Robert Frost
    “A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
    Robert Frost

  • #5
    Robert Frost
    “Some say the world will end in fire,
    Some say in ice.
    From what I've tasted of desire,
    I hold with those who favor fire.
    But if it had to perish twice
    I think I know enough of hate
    To say that for destruction ice
    Is also great
    And would suffice.”
    Robert Frost

  • #6
    Robert Frost
    “Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
    And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
    Robert Frost

  • #7
    T.S. Eliot
    “This is the way the world ends
    Not with a bang but a whimper.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #8
    Charles Baudelaire
    “Always be a poet, even in prose.”
    Charles Baudelaire

  • #9
    Kobayashi Issa
    “What a strange thing!
    to be alive
    beneath cherry blossoms.”
    Kobayashi Issa, Poems

  • #10
    William Shakespeare
    “I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
    William Shakespeare

  • #11
    E.E. Cummings
    “listen: there’s a hell
    of a good universe next door; let’s go”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #12
    Dylan Thomas
    “Do not go gentle into that good night,
    Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
    Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

  • #13
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    “The windows of my soul I throw
    Wide open to the sun.”
    John Greenleaf Whittier, John Greenleaf Whittier's Poetry: An Appraisal and a Selection

  • #14
    Virginia Woolf
    “Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #15
    Charlotte Brontë
    “All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.”
    Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

  • #16
    Charles Bukowski
    “some moments are nice, some are
    nicer, some are even worth
    writing
    about.”
    Charles Bukowski, War All the Time: Poems 1981 - 1984

  • #17
    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    Langston Hughes

  • #18
    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #19
    Jack Kornfield
    “In the end
    these things matter most:
    How well did you love?
    How fully did you live?
    How deeply did you let go?”
    Jack Kornfield, Buddha's Little Instruction Book

  • #20
    Haruki Murakami
    “Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #21
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

  • #22
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #23
    Federico García Lorca
    “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
    Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

  • #24
    “Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
    Stephen Hawking

  • #25
    Lemony Snicket
    “The world is quiet here.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #26
    Lemony Snicket
    “Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #27
    Lemony Snicket
    “I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

  • #28
    Lemony Snicket
    “All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #29
    Lemony Snicket
    “Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

  • #30
    Lemony Snicket
    “The sad truth is the truth is sad.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital



Rss
« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 17 18