Siban > Siban's Quotes

“For as long as there's anyone to ask 'Why?' the answer will always be, 'Why not?”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”
― Charlie Chaplin

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
― William Blake

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never
Rises from the soul, and sways
The heart of every single hearer,
With deepest power, in simple ways.
You’ll sit forever, gluing things together,
Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps,
Blowing on a miserable fire,
Made from your heap of dying ash.
Let apes and children praise your art,
If their admiration’s to your taste,
But you’ll never speak from heart to heart,
Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
― Albert Camus

“What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”
― Robin Williams

“Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.”
― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories

“If you love a flower, don’t pick it up.
Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love.
So if you love a flower, let it be.
Love is not about possession.
Love is about appreciation.”
― Osho

“For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“And that was the end of the beginning of that”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

“I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose history is ended, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, whose literature is unread, whose music is unheard, whose prayers are no longer uttered. Go ahead, destroy this race. Let us say that it is again 1915. There is war in the world. Destroy Armenia. See if you can do it. Send them from their homes into the desert. Let them have neither bread nor water. Burn their houses and their churches. See if they will not live again. See if they will not laugh again. See if the race will not live again when two of them meet in a beer parlor, twenty years after, and laugh, and speak in their tongue. Go ahead, see if you can do anything about it. See if you can stop them from mocking the big ideas of the world, you sons of bitches, a couple of Armenians talking in the world, go ahead and try to destroy them.”
― WILLIAM SAROYAN

“Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems

“Life is a movie; death is a photograph.”
― Susan Sontag

“The world holds two classes of men--intelligent men without religion, and religious men without
intelligence.
poet”
― ~ Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri, 973-1057, Syrian

“From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

“It's all in the mind.”
― George Harrison

“Any man's life, told truly, is a novel...”
― Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

“I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced...”
― Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent