Shahrazad > Shahrazad's Quotes

“I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Love those you hate you.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once.”
― Robert Browning, The complete poetical works of Browning

“I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.”
― Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines

“Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
And when it's morning again, they'll wash away
Here it's safe, here it's warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm
Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
Here is the place where I love you.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“If I may say, Rich, your wife is looking lovelier with each passing day.”

“You may,” Rich’s muffled words fell against the large red apple in his mouth. He carried a plate of various fresh fruit and the bowl of spaghetti Jace had pointed out earlier. He set the plates down and took the apple out of his mouth while he munched on a piece. “She can’t hear it enough times with the discomfort, aches, pains, bloating and cramping she feels.”

“Why don’t you also share the gas, cravings and the sudden violent tendencies I get, honey?” Joanna said flippantly as she reached for the spaghetti.

“Ah!” Rich smacked her hand away and moved the bowl out of her reach. He pushed the fruit bowl forward in its place. “That’s healthier for our kids.”

“They want messy pasta right now.”

“Tell them they don’t always get what they want.”

“Their mother wants messy pasta right now.”

“Tell her she doesn’t always get what she wants.”

Joanna leaned forward, pursing her lips and raising her eyebrow. “Once the children are born, papa won’t be getting what he wants late at night when he gives me that “I’m in heat” look. I’m sure of that.”

Rich’s hand on the apple froze. Slowly he chewed, looking up at Jace and Gael whose gazes had been volleying back and forth on the couple as they spoke. Reluctantly, he pushed the spaghetti bowl forward. He reached for the fruit bowl but winced when Joanna smacked his hand away and pulled both bowls in front of her.”
― Rae Lori, Within the Shadows of Mortals

“There's never any great risk as long as you have money.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

“They decide to show it is good
It is a show

They shout it is good
It is a show

They won’t let anything good to show up
It is a show

What do people believe?

Is it a show?”
― Rixa White

“Look at me
I am the life in a wasteland

Look at me
I am the slavery through the ages

Look at me
I am the mirror of the world

Look at me
I am the illusion I’ve fought for

Look at me
I’m still loving you

and I keep being here

for you, for me,
and for what’s worth breathing”
― Rixa White

“Here I am
Looking at the world’s mirror
Finding myself
at the center of a maze
Constructing the roots of a dream
for a nationless society
by the power of peace”
― Rixa White

“Looking around
there is nothing but illusion
Everything is drowned
in the oceans of illusion”
― Rixa White

“From the very beginning
perplexing and wandering
from one ocean to another
an everlasting wander”
― Rixa White

“أن الفقر نوعان: فقر صعلكة وكسل، وفقر سببه الجهاد والبذل، أو إيثار الحلال القليل على الحرام الكثير، أو الترفع عن قبول السحت والرشوة وهدايا السلطة المتاحة للمرء.. الأول معصية، والآخر محمدة، وحال الأفراد والجماعات فى أمتنا الكبرى يرجع إلى النوع الأول غالبا، ففقر المسلمين واستدانتهم، وقلة ذات اليد عندهم ترجع إلى عجز عن مكابدة الحياة، وجهالة بمفاتيح الخير، واستهلاك الأوقات فى البطالة والملذات! إ”
― محمد الغزالي

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“I don’t give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am - I really do - but people never notice it. People never notice anything.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“You know, Scarlett, Rhett didn't give a damn, and frankly, I don't either.”
― Myra McEntire, Hourglass

“Where will you go? What will you do?" he demanded.

"That need be no concern of yours--"

"The hell it isn't!" he shouted. "Everything about you is my concern."

She opened her mouth to deny this but the look of him stopped her. For a long tense moment he studied her and when he spoke his voice was low and furious and yearning.

"I don't give a bloody damn if I never share your bed, your name, or your house -- you are still my concern. You can leave, take yourself from my ken, disappear for the rest of my life but you cannot untangle yourself from my -- my concern. That I have of you, Miss Bede, for that, at least, I do not need your permission."

His words shocked her. She looked decades hence and she saw a specter of what might have been haunting her every moment, her every act, for the rest of her life.

"Your concern is misplaced."

"It's mine to misplace," he said steadily.”
― Connie Brockway, My Dearest Enemy

“I am a part of all that I have met.”
― Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson

“Time is the most precious gift you can give to someone, because if you give someone your time. It's a part of your life that you will never get back.”
― Gloria Tesch

“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
― William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery

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

“If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.”
― Audre Lorde

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway