kings and queens quotes

Artists

Emily Bronte in "Wuthering Heights":

"he is more myself than i am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same"

"I pray every night that I may live after him; because i would rather be miserable than that he should be. That proves I love him better than myself"

"I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being"

"Honest people don't hide their deeds."

"I have to remind myself to breathe - almost to remind my heart to beat!"

Liev Tolstói in "war and peace":

"Yes, love, but not the love that loves for something, to gain something, or because of something, but that love that I felt for the first time, when dying, I saw my enemy and yet loved him."

"Everything I know, I know because of love."

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

"Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women"

"Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself."

Patrick Süskind in "Perfume: The Story of a murderer":

"...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything."

"...in that moment, as he saw and smelled how irresistible its effect was and how with lightning speed it spread and made captives of the people all around him—in that moment his whole disgust for humankind rose up again within him and completely soured his triumph, so that he felt not only no joy, but not even the least bit of satisfaction. What he had always longed for—that other people should love him—became at the moment of his achievement unbearable, because he did not love them himself, he hated them. And suddenly he knew that he had never found gratification in love, but always only in hatred—in hating and in being hated."

"She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey smooth and sweet and terribly sticky."

"He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice."

"When they finally did dare it, at first with stolen glances and then candid ones, they had to smile. They were uncommonly proud. For the first time they had done something out of Love."

"Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame."