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  • #1
    Malcolm X
    “My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
    Malcolm X

  • #2
    Albert Camus
    “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
    Albert Camus

  • #3
    Albert Camus
    “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
    Albert Camus

  • #4
    Albert Camus
    “I would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.”
    Albert Camus

  • #5
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #7
    Anna Akhmatova
    “I seem to myself, as in a dream,
    An accidental guest in this dreadful body.”
    Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

  • #8
    Henrik Ibsen
    “To live is to war with trolls in heart and soul.
    To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.”
    Henrik Johan Ibsen, Peer Gynt

  • #8
    Henrik Ibsen
    “Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.”
    Henrik Ibsen

  • #9
    Charles Bukowski
    “You have to die a few times before you can really
    live.”
    Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

  • #10
    Slavoj Žižek
    “Liberals always say about totalitarians that they like humanity, as such, but they have no empathy for concrete people, no? OK, that fits me perfectly. Humanity? Yes, it's OK – some great talks, some great arts. Concrete people? No, 99% are boring idiots.”
    Slavoj Žižek

  • #11
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #12
    Thomas Aquinas
    “Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.”
    Saint Thomas Aquinas

  • #13
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #14
    Anna Akhmatova
    “I myself, from the very beginning,
    Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium
    Or a reflection in someone else's mirror,
    Without flesh, without meaning, without a name.
    Already I knew the list of crimes
    That I was destined to commit.”
    Anna Akhmatova

  • #16
    James Baldwin
    “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
    James Baldwin

  • #17
    Mark Twain
    “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
    Mark Twain

  • #18
    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #19
    Malcolm X
    “I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
    Malcolm X

  • #20
    Malcolm X
    “People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”
    Malcolm X

  • #21
    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    Langston Hughes

  • #22
    Langston Hughes
    “Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,
    Help us to see
    That without the dust the rainbow
    Would not be.”
    Langston Hughes
    tags: god, life

  • #23
    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #24
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #25
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #26
    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    Michael Cunningham, The Hours

  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

  • #28
    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    Albert Camus

  • #29
    Haruki Murakami
    “But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #30
    Haruki Murakami
    “I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
    Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

  • #31
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Let everything happen to you
    Beauty and terror
    Just keep going
    No feeling is final”
    Rainer Maria Rilke



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