“I love to lose myself in other men’s minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.”
| — | Charles Lamb, “Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading” |
“Full bottles are quiet; it’s the empty ones that make all the noise.”
| — | Chinese proverb |
“The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.”
| — | Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion |
“I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening…like a light in the midst of the darkness.”
| — | Vincent Van Gogh |
“The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.”
| — | Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev |
“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
| — | Bertrand Russell |
“I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.”
| — | Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms |
“All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.”
| — | Henry Miller |
“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”
| — | Friedrich Nietzsche |
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”
| — | W.C. Fields |
“I love to smell flowers in the dark,’ she said. ‘You get hold of their soul then.’”
| — | L. M. Montogmery |
“You either like me or you don’t. It took me Twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don’t have that kinda time to convince somebody else.”
| — | Daniel Franzese |
“Her lips drink water but her heart drinks wine.”
| — | E.E. Cumming |
“We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.”
| — | Charles Bukowski |
“No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.”
| — | Edvard Munch |
“I want a trouble-maker for a lover, blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, who burns like fire on the rushing sea.”
| — | Rumi |
“Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.”
| — | Georges Seurat |
“Some would sooner die than think. In fact, they often do.”
| — | Bertrand Russell |
“When the eyes and ears are open,
even the leaves on the trees teach like
pages from the scriptures.”
| — | Kabir |
“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
| — | Walt Whitman |
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
| — | Marcel Proust |
“The true paradises are the lost paradises.”
| — | Marcel Prous |
