Ananda Nadya > Ananda's Quotes

“All these thousands of miles later, all these different people I've been, and it's still the same story. Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? How is it you can keep mutating and still be the same deadly virus?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“My older self knows that you must stop—in the middle of the chaos—to take in the world around you. To breathe in deeply, smell the sunscreen and the rubber of the ball, let the breeze blow across your neck, feel the warmth of the sun on your skin. In this respect, I love the way the world has aged me.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

“Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

“It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
― Voltaire, Candide, or, Optimism

“I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?'
That is a hard question,' said Candide.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“You're a bitter man," said Candide.
That's because I've lived," said Martin.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“No one is ever satisfied where he is.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“It's the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important...People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Selama toko buku ada, selama itu pustaka bisa dibentuk kembali. Kalau perlu dan memang perlu, pakaian dan makanan dikurangi.”
― Tan Malaka, Madilog

“Sudah tentu seorang pengarang atau penulis manapun juga dan berapapun juga adalah murid dari pemikir lain dari dalam masyarakatnya sendiri atau masyarakat lain. Sedikitnya ia dipengaruhi oleh guru, kawan sepaham, bahkan oleh musuhnya sendiri.”
― Tan Malaka, Madilog

“Ingatlah! Bahwa dari dalam kubur, suara saya akan lebih keras daripada dari atas bumi”
― Tan Malaka

“Bila kaum muda yang telah belajar di sekolah dan menganggap dirinya terlalu tinggi dan pintar untuk melebur dengan masyarakat yang bekerja dengan cangkul dan hanya memiliki cita-cita yang sederhana, maka lebih baik pendidikan itu tidak diberikan sama sekali" - Tan Malaka ”
― Tan Malaka, Madilog

“Sedangkan sebetulnya cara mendapatkan hasil itulah yang lebih penting daripada hasil sendiri.
(bab 3, ilmu alam -science page 99)”
― Tan Malaka, Madilog

“Belajarlah dari Barat, tapi jangan jadi peniru Barat, melainkan jadilah murid dari Timur yang cerdas”
― Tan Malaka

“Ia, Tan Malaka, orang pertama yang menulis konsep Republik Indonesia... Tapi hidupnya berakhir tragis di ujung senapan tentara republik yang didirikannya.”
― Tan Malaka

“Setiap orang Asia yang terpelajar, yang hidup di negeri terbelakang dan memimpikan suatu kemungkinan supaya negerinya memperoleh persamaan yang nyata dengan Barat yang kaya dan modern, pada dasarnya akan berpikir secara sosialis”
― Sutan Sjahrir

“Kesalahan orang-orang pandai ialah menganggap yang lain bodoh, dan kesalahan orang-orang bodoh ialah menganggap orang-orang lain pandai”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer

“Let us cultivate our garden.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince