December 12th, 2017 | Updated on February 16th, 2022
1. Books fall open, you fall in.-David T.W. McCord
2. I’m glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone.-Dr. Seuss
3. There’s something ugly about the flawless.-Dennis Lehane
4. Adventure is worthwhile in itself.-Amelia Earhart
5. I used to believe in forever, but forever’s too good to be true-A.A. Milne
6. I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.-E.B. White
7. How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.-Gore Vidal
8. I don’t think there is any truth. There are only points of view. -Allen Ginsberg
9. I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.-Agostinho da Silva
10. When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.-Albert Camus
11. That was enterprising,” Will sounded nearly impressed.Nate smiled. Tess shot him a furious look. “Don’t look pleased with yourself. When Will says ‘enterprising’ he means ‘morally deficient.'” “No, I mean enterprising,” said Will. “When I mean morally deficient, I say, ‘Now, that’s something I would have done’.-Cassandra Clare
12. I suspect the most we can hope for, and it’s no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.-Elizabeth Strout
13. If the person you are talking to doesn’t appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.-A.A. Milne
14. You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.-Annie Proulx
15. Books. Cats. Life is Good.-Edward Gorey
16. But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.-Daphne du Maurier
17. Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.-Bob Marley
18. My ambition is handicapped by laziness-Charles Bukowski
19. You have to die a few times before you can really live.-Charles Bukowski
20. None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.-Anne Rice
21. Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.-Gayle Forman
22. 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 Dostoyevsky
23. Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.-Dan Brown
24. I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.-Anne Tyler
25. The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.-Charles Bukowski
26. Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.-F. Scott Fitzgerald
27. Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.-A.A. Milne
28. People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.-Harper Lee
29. You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.-Annie Proulx
30. Books. Cats. Life is Good. I wanted the whole world or nothing.-Charles Bukowski
31. Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.-Friedrich Nietzsche
32. My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?-David Mitchell
33. Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.-David Foster Wallace
34. There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock. People so tired mutilated either by love or no love.People just are not good to each other one on one. the rich are not good to the rich the poor are not good to the poor. we are afraid. our educational system tells us that we can all be big-ass winners. It hasn’t told us about the gutters or the suicides.or the terror of one person aching in one place alone untouched unspoken to watering a plant.-Charles Bukowski
35. We all have our time machines, don’t we. Those that take us back are memories…And those that carry us forward, are dreams.-H.G. Wells
36. No, I’m just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns.-Cassandra Clare
37. An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.-Charles Bukowski
38. There are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it’s too late and there’s nothing worse than too late-Charles Bukowski
39. There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.-C.S. Lewis
40. Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable.-Clare Boothe Luce
41. If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose-Charles Bukowski
42. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.-Gayle Forman
43. If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.-Chinua Achebe
44. Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.-Bill Nye
45. The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.-Ernest Hemingway
46. I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.-A.A. Milne
47. Sometimes,’ said Pooh, ‘the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.-A.A. Milne
48. I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end.-Gilda Radner
49. You’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?-Edward Albee
50. Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. Some lose both and become accepted-Charles Bukowski
51. Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.-Cassandra Clare
52. The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It’s the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows & the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years.-Audrey Hepburn
53. And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.-George Gordon Byron
54. I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.-Audrey Hepburn
