I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Category: Quotes
We don’t see things
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
– Anaïs Nin
Have you tried talking to her?
“Have you tried talking to her?”
“No. We’ve been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don’t think that will work?”
– Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
Just tell me
Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Everything you can imagine is real
Everything you can imagine is real.
– Pablo Picasso
Happiness in intelligent people …
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
– Ernest Hemingway
Have books happened to you
Have books ‘happened’ to you?
Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you.
– Haruki Murakami
If you only read …
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading,
you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Nights without work …
Nights without work I spent with whisky and books.
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
It is beautiful …
It is beautiful,
it is endless,
it is full
and yet seems empty.
It hurts us.”
― Jackson Pearce, Fathomless
Our own front door …
Our own front door can be a wonderful thing,
or a sight we dread;
rarely is it only a door.
– Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Now something…
Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can’t even cry.
– Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense