Cassy > Cassy's Quotes

“If anyone could have saved me it would have been you.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Hope this isn't one of those any-place-I-hang-my-hat-is-home-type situations where the Sadness hangs its hat on you. Hope that you are not Sadness's home, anywhere you go, no matter how far, no matter how quickly - the Sadness lives in you. Hope to God it's not that.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“Sometimes I wonder if life was wasted on me.”
― Nico Walker, Cherry

“Everybody is nothing until you love them.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Rose Tattoo

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I wanted to have a make-believe world because I couldn't bear to live in the real one.”
― Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong

“C'est ce que fait Dieu, chaque nuit. That's what God has to do every night on an infinite scale. He invented the whole universe, and now he has to pay attention to it. Otherwise all the stars will go out one by one. We complain that he sometimes doesn't get around to the things we want him to, but look up at the sky! Always more spectacular, the people say. Always more spectacular... Les gens en veulent toujours plus.”
― Heather O'Neill, The Lonely Hearts Hotel

“For you and I are past our dancing days”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“It's not that I'm dumb to the beauty of things. I take all the beautiful things to heart, and they fuck my heart till I about die from it.”
― Nico Walker, Cherry

“She destroyed his dreams, and he made her wind chimes.”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“Please try not to need me. That’s the worst bait of all to a lonely man.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“If it is your nature
to be happy
you will swim away along the soft trails

for hours, your imagination
alighting everywhere.
And if your spirit
carries within it

the thorn
that is heavier than lead—
if it's all you can do
to keep on trudging—

there is still
somewhere deep within you
a beast shouting that the earth
is exactly what it wanted—

each pond with its blazing lilies
is a prayer heard and answered
lavishly,
every morning,

whether or not
you have ever dared to be happy,
whether or not
you have ever dared to pray.”
― Mary Oliver, Dream Work

“Let me be as urgent as a knife, then,
and remind you of Keats,
so single of purpose and thinking, for a while,
he had a lifetime”
― Mary Oliver

“Why do you do that?"

"Do what?"

"Take something beautiful and vandalize it with skepticism?”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“He didn't want to read the newspaper or listen to the radio anymore. He didn't want to be a grown-up. There are some people who are just no good at it.”
― Heather O'Neill, The Lonely Hearts Hotel

“And maybe if I had gotten killed I'd have always been good.”
― Nico Walker, Cherry

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The television has two instruments that control it.
I get confused.
The washer asks me, do you want regular or delicate?
Honestly, I just want clean.
Everything is like that.
I won’t even mention cell phones.

I can turn on the light of the lamp beside my chair
Where a book is waiting, but that’s about it.

Oh yes, and I can strike a match and make fire.”
― Mary Oliver, Blue Horses

“When he'd lowered his face to kiss my forehead, I saw that his eyes held all the sadness in the world.”
― Susie Finkbeiner, All Manner of Things

“Her eyes—green—were bright, merciful, sometimes given to melancholy, not entirely guileless. And I’d listen to her tell me about the abandoned factories and the cemetery where she’d grown up, the places where she’d skinned her knees. And her voice took me over. This is how you find the one to break your heart.”
― Nico Walker, Cherry

“The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“I think I love you, Cal." -Abra
I'm not good." -Cal
Because you're not good." -Abra”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. […]. I'm two, and both keep their distance — Siamese twins that aren't attached.”
― Fernando Pessoa , The Book of Disquiet

“I saw what love might have done
had we loved in time.”
― Mary Oliver, Dream Work

“What distresses us is not loosing life, but losing what gives it meaning.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.”
― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman