179 quotes found
“Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world be...”
“Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.”
“I've learnt that solitude is sometimes a path that leads to peace”
“The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.”
“Some disappointments honor those who inspire them”
“The day I charge an unbeliever like you for the word of God will be the day I'm struck dead by lightning, and with good reason.”
“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living isn't complicated enough”
“Never trust anyone Daniel, especially the people you admire”
“In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.”
“Ben invented mathematical theories that even he didn't manage to remember and wrote such bizarre tales of adventure that he ended up destroying them a week after they were finished, embarrassed at ...”
“ I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her what I never known how to give her. These pages w...”
“An intellectual is usually someone who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect," Corelli asserted. "he claims that label to compensate for his inadequacies. It's as old as that saying : "Tell ...”
“Vidal had his exuberant and stately tower in the most elegant and elevated part of Pedralbes, surrounded by hills, trees, and fairy-tale skies. I would have my sinister tower rising above the oldes...”
“All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with...”
“Justice is an affectation of perspective, not a universal value.”
“Life has enough torturers as it is, without you going around moonlighting as a Grand Inquisitor against yourself.”
“And as he watched them walk out of the orphanage, Thomas Carter would think of their lives as the blank pages of a book in which he had written the initial chapters of a story he would never be all...”
“[He] was a brilliant man. People tend to become wary of individuals like him because their brilliance reminds them of their own mediocrity. Envy is a blind man who wants to pull out your eyes.”
“So what is it you're going to show me today?""A number of things. In fact, what I'm going to show you is part of a story. Didn't you tell me the other day that what you like to do is read?"Bea nodd...”
“Everything in life is nonsense. It's just a question of perspective.”
