Iskra > Iskra's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 38
« previous 1
sort by

    like
  • #1
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
    101587 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
    69719 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
    71713 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Shirley Jackson
    “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
    ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
    tags: escape, escapism, first-sentence, opening-lines, reality, sanity
    1307 likes

    • like
  • #5
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: food, happiness
    10479 likes

    • like
  • #6
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
    27869 likes

    • like
  • #7
    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
    18131 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
    “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: eating-reading
    8611 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Amélie Nothomb
    “Behind every work of art lies the enormous pretension of exhibiting one's vision of the world. If such obvious arrogance is not counterbalanced by the tribulations of doubt, all that remains is a monster who is to art what a fanatic is to faith.”
    ― Amélie Nothomb, Life Form
    tags: arrogance, art, artist, doubt, work-of-art
    4 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Louis-Ferdinand Céline
    “To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!”
    ― Louis-Ferdinand Celine
    tags: rapture
    471 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    ― Michael Cunningham, The Hours
    tags: life, peace
    10243 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
    14004 likes

    • like
  • #14
    George Eliot
    “If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”
    ― George Eliot, Middlemarch
    tags: silence
    516 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday
    17422 likes

    • like
  • #16
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
    128955 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    84927 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
    20266 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Anaïs Nin
    “I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: anais-nin, inspirational, living, mermaids, no-fear, sea
    3034 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “To reach a port we must set sail –
    Sail, not tie at anchor
    Sail, not drift.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: boats, perseverance, progress, sailing, sea
    321 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Neil Gaiman
    “Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: inspirational
    2480 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Yōko Ogawa
    “A problem isn't finished just because you've found the right answer.”
    ― Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor
    83 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Yōko Ogawa
    “Eternal truths are ultimately invisible, and you won't find them in material things or natural phenomena, or even in human emotions.”
    ― Yoko Ogawa
    25 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Yōko Ogawa
    “The room was filled with a kind of stillness. Not simply an absence of noise, but an accumulation of layers of silence...”
    ― Yôko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor
    45 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Yōko Ogawa
    “Solving a problem for which you know there's an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid.”
    ― Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor
    14 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
    23670 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Toni Morrison
    “Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: beauty, disillusion, envy, ideas, insecurity, life, love, physical-beauty, romantic-love, truth
    406 likes

    • like
  • #28
    David Foster Wallace
    “How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
    tags: words
    1236 likes

    • like
  • #29
    Margaret Atwood
    “Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
    tags: education
    2380 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Neil Gaiman
    “Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    2909 likes

    • like
  • #31
    Neil Gaiman
    “It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: neil-gaiman, the-graveyard-book
    2235 likes



Rss
« previous 1
All Quotes



Tags From Iskra’s Quotes

charles-bayard-mitchell
accomplishment
attributed-no-source
be-yourself
conformity
individuality
intelligence
self-deprecation
escape
escapism
first-sentence
opening-lines
reality
sanity
food
happiness
books
inspirational
reading
tea
age
fairytales
growing-up
eating-reading
arrogance
art
artist
doubt
work-of-art
rapture
life
peace
meaning-of-life
silence
alice
humor
philosophy-of-life
psychological
yesterday
dance
heaven
hurt
love
sing
limits
anais-nin
living
mermaids
no-fear
sea
boats
perseverance
progress
sailing
beauty
disillusion
envy
ideas
insecurity
physical-beauty
romantic-love
truth
words
education
neil-gaiman
the-graveyard-book