Clementine > Clementine's Quotes

“Those who mismanage our affairs would silence our criticism by pretending they have facts not avaliable to the rest of us. Our best weapon against them is not to marshal facts, of which they are truly managers, but passion. Passion is our hope and strenght."
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― Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah

“I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Saeed for his part wished he could do something for Nadia, could protect her
from what would come, even if he understood, at some level, that to love is to
enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most
valuable to you. He thought she deserved better than this, but he could see no
way out, for they had decided not to run, not to play roulette with yet another
departure. To flee forever is beyond the capacity of most: at some point even a
hunted animal will stop, exhausted, and await its fate, if only for a while.
“What do you think happens when you die?” Nadia asked him.
“You mean the afterlife?”
“No, not after. When. In the moment. Do things just go black, like a phone
screen turning off? Or do you slip into something strange in the middle, like
when you’re falling asleep, and you’re both here and there?”
Saeed thought that it depended on how you died. But he saw Nadia seeing
him, so intent on his answer, and he said, “I think it would be like falling asleep.
You’d dream before you were gone.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”
― Edward Albee

“Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Awonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
― John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems

“Learn to make yourself akin to people. . . . But let this sympathy be not with the mind--for it is easy with the mind--but with the heart, with love towards them.”
― Virginia Woolf, Modern Fiction

“What you risk reveals what you value.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“We’ve been talking a lot about dependencies. Things you get dependent on ... Smack but also people. You get dependent on people. Like… emotional dependencies. Which are just as addictive. OK?”
― Mark Ravenhill, Shopping and Fucking

“Bize hiçbir şey yapmadılar, bizi tümüyle hiçliğin içine yerleştirdiler, çünkü bilindiği gibi yeryüzünde hiçbir şey insan ruhuna hiçlik kadar baskı yapmaz.”
― Stefan Zweig

“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“When thinking one cannot avoid beginning with certain convictions, but one must be aware that these convictions can be questioned and need to be defended with argument. One must also be aware that one's attempts to defend these convictions may fail, so that one may have to abandon or revise one's convictions. Thinking in an open-ended way does not mean starting from nowhere, but it does mean being able to arrive wherever thought and argument lead.”
― Alison Stone, An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy

“My imagination, which made life tolerable, needed to be kept a secret from the rest of the world. But if you keep something hidden away, all tied up, it’s hard to summon it when you really need it.”
― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here

“Maybe raising children was just giving them the things you loved most in the world and hoping that they loved them too.”
― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here

“When I woke up, Carl was standing over me, his hand lightly resting on his cheek, like I was abstract art, like he saw something that interested him but he wasn’t sure what it meant, like he thought I was something a child could have made.”
― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here

“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
― E.E. Cummings

“It is as though the way to create a child's acceptance of animals' deaths is by convincing him or her that sometimes humans must be killed too. "Just" wars justify meat eating.”
― Carol J. Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

“For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary.”
― Monique Wittig, The Straight Mind: And Other Essays

“Edebi eserler, insanı yeni ve mesut, başka iyi ve güzel bir dünyaya götürmeye yardım etmiyorlarsa neye yarar?”
― Sait Faik Abasıyanık

“İntihar etmeyeceksek içelim bari”
― Adalet Ağaoğlu, Bir Düğün Gecesi

“My purpose is to tell of bodies that have been changed into shapes of different kinds.”
― Ovid

“Bir çocuğa, anne babasını ağlarken görmekten daha fazla koyan pek az şey vardır bu dünyada.”
― Alper Canıgüz, Oğullar ve Rencide Ruhlar

“Acı veriyorsa geçmiş, geçmemiş demektir.”
― Murathan Mungan

“Ne zaman içime biraz fazla baksam, yükseklik korkum depreşir”
― Murathan Mungan, Üç Aynalı Kırk Oda