"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― G.K. Chesterton
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch
“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
― Dr. Seuss
“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― André Gide, Autumn Leaves
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot
“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“We read to know that we are not alone.”
― William Nicholson
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
― Bob Marley
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges
“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen
"Must I go bound while you go free,
Must I love a man who doesn't love me,
Must I be born with so little art,
As to love a man who will break my heart."
~Unknown, Found in the clockwork books by Cassandra Claire
We must gather wisdom while we
are not required to use it; when the
time for use arrives, the time for
harvest is over."
~Hans Gross, Criminal Psychology.
“We are all capable of becoming something monstrous.”
~ Cyraus Foldger
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
~Socrates
If I were to hide out on the sea,
You'd be whispering from the westerlies
In any book I'll ever read,
You'd be the line that sticks out to me,
Out to me
~Lights
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Some Quotes I really liked
PoetryJust a few quotes/song lyrics that I really liked and wanted to share.