“I like you to be exactly the way that you are, because in all my experience, I have never known anyone like you.”
—Tennessee Williams
“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
—Emily Dickinson
"I refuse to slow down.
I refuse to stop.
If you aren’t helping me to get where I want to go, get out of my way."
—John Maurer
"for what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?" jane austen
“Then she came into the room, shining in her youth and tall striding beauty...”
—Ernest Hemingway
“What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?”
― Jess C. Scott,
“I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.”
—Marie Antoinette
“When you see the genuine, you don't deal with the fakes anymore.”
― Nima davani
"and whether we shall meet again i know not.
therefore our everlasting farewell take.
forever and forever farewell, cassius.
if we do meet again, why, we shall smile.
if not, why then this parting was well made." william shakespeare from julius caesar (act 5, scene 1)
i find these lines incredibly sad...
“I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.”
—Adolf Hitler
"i do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal" jane austen
“Let’s have a toast for the douchebags,
Let’s have a toast for the assholes,
Let’s have a toast for the scumbags,
Every one of them that I know
Let’s have a toast to the jerkoffs...”
—Kanye West, Runaway
“I didn't want to kiss you goodbye–that was the trouble–I wanted to kiss you good night–and there's a lot of difference”
—Ernest Hemingway
"the person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid" jane austen
“He kisses like he's dying of thirst, and I'm water.”
—Jennifer L. Armentrout
"I am doomed to overflowing, both in living and in imagination.”
— Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Linotte: The Early Diary Of Anaïs Nin (1914-1920)
“I’m not heartless. I’ve just learned how to use my heart less.”
—Kanye West
“A kiss is a rosy dot over the ‘i’ of loving.”
—Cyrano de Bergerac
“One should not go into churches if one wishes to breathe pure air.”
―Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“When I am tired of only touching,
I have my mouth to try to tell you
what, in your arms, is not erased.”
—Mary Szybist
“She had the temperament of an actress, the soul of an artist, and the feelings of a wholehearted woman.
She was delicate, sincere.
She lived by her emotions, by the fascination of art.”
—Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, “The Eternal Woman,”
“I put zero weight into anyone’s opinion about me because I know exactly who I am.
Can you say the same?”
—Gary Vaynerchuk
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every opened eye isn’t not seeing - Bill Cosby
“Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work- it’s a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love them.”
—Dean Koontz
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
— George Eliot
