Ida Yulia > Ida's Quotes

“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.”
― Albert Einstein

“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“God has no religion.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”
― John Lennon

“All that you touch
You Change.

All that you Change
Changes you.

The only lasting truth
is Change.

God
is Change.”
― Octavia E. Butler

“I tried to believe that there is a God, who created each of us in His own image and likeness, loves us very much, and keeps a close eye on things. I really tried to believe that, but I gotta tell you, the longer you live, the more you look around, the more you realize, something is fucked up.”
― George Carlin

“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“When you listen and read one thinker, you become a clone… two thinkers, you become confused… ten thinkers, you’ll begin developing your own voice… two or three hundred thinkers, you become wise and develop your voice.”
― Timothy Keller

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.”
― Martin Luther

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire

“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
― Mark Twain

“There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“When the time comes, everybody’s got to end up where they belong. Only me, I didn’t have a place to call my own. It’s like musical chairs.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“Tak ada orang yang benar-benar jahat. Yang ada hanyalah orangorang yang kesepian. Jika mereka tak kesepian dan punya teman,punya Appa, Eomma, atau saudara yang baik, mereka tak akan jadi jahat. Mereka hanya perlu pulang... ke rumah, ke tempat di mana orang-orang
mencintai mereka.”
― Ida R. Yulia, Andante Part 2 (End): The Crave for Eternity

“Berpikir ke depan, Kyu. Tidak semua hal seburuk kelihatannya. Kau harus tetap hidup, bertahan, demi orang-orang yang masih mempercayai adanya kebaikan dan harapan, setipis apa pun. Rasakan
angin di sekelilingmu, angin yang dikirimkan Tuhan untuk menopangmu,
mendorong sayapmu agar tidak jatuh lagi….”
― Ida R. Yulia, Andante Part 1: The Fallen Wings

“Mungkin kau kehilangan sosok yang berharga bagimu, tapi itu bukan berarti kau tidak bisa bahagia lagi. Seperti kau
lihat di luar sana, bisa saja hujan salju terus menerus sepanjang hari, tapi tidak akan selamanya kita akan dihadapkan pada hujan salju. Musim akan
berganti, begitu juga hidupmu. Ya, Hyung tahu, hidup kita tampak sangat kacau sekarang, tapi akan selalu ada jalan untuk melewati semuanya. Bisa jadi kita terluka lebih lama dari yang kita inginkan, tapi Tuhan akan selalu membantu kita mencari jalan untuk bertahan.”
― Ida R. Yulia, Andante Part 1: The Fallen Wings

“Tuhan, jika kau benar-benar ada... tunjukkan padaku. Hentikan aku,”
― Ida R. Yulia, Andante Part 2 (End): The Crave for Eternity

“Dia bilang tak ada orang yang benar benar jahat. Yang ada hanyalah orang kesepian, yang tak punya tempat untuk pulang. Bagaimana jika memang ada orang jahat yang juga kesepian, terbang ke sana kemari sampai mampus kebosanan?”
― Ida R. Yulia, Andante Part 2 (End): The Crave for Eternity

“...dia memang manis di depanmu, tapi sebagai ‘pria normal’, kupikir lebih baik kau mencari wanita lain yang belum pernah pegang pistol.”
― Ida R. Yulia, Andante Part 2 (End): The Crave for Eternity

“Prioritas, itu yang sebenarnya lebih kupikirkan daripada rasa sentimentil yang hanya berlandaskan perasaan, karena terkadang kita terjebak dalam perangkap
licik kehidupan jika melihat apa-apa hanya dari perasaan saja.”
― Ida R. Yulia, Andante Part 2 (End): The Crave for Eternity

“Terima kasih telah memberiku contoh nyata bagaimana memaafkan seseorang dan melanjutkan hidup tanpa melihat ke belakang, Eomma.”
― Ida R. Yulia, Hold My Hand, Don't Look Back

“Ya, aku memang tak berada di posisimu, aku berada di posisi ‘penonton’, netral. Dan kau tahu apa yang jelas-jelas tampak di mata penonton sepertiku? Kau berlaku tak adil pada Claudia,”
(Chang Seok to Yeonggie)”
― Ida R. Yulia, Hold My Hand, Don't Look Back

“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

“The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.”
― Carl Sagan