40 quotes found
“Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground.”
“Death, it turns out, is the mother of all conflicts.”
“Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila.”
“Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.”
“My dear girl, is it that you are so lonely that you had to create this?”
“The greatest of love letters are always coded for the one and not the many.”
“Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead.”
“Then no matter where you are, in a crowded restaurant or on some desolate street or even in the comforts of your own home, you'll watch yourself dismantle every assurance you ever lived by. You'll ...”
“Sometimes it's just silent...No sound at all.'Does that scare you?'Chad nods. 'Why?' asks his father.'It's like something's waiting.”
“...and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along. ”
“I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.”
“Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say.Of course those who write short books have even less to say.”
“Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.”
“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does ...”
“Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might-have-beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone?”
“But tomorrow came faster than expected, as if the future were never somewhere else, but all along part of the fabric of every present, merely untwining itself again and again into a new distinction...”
“Some people reflect lightSome deflect itYou by some miracleSeem to collect it”
“the seriousness of emotional deprivation:It is not difficult to understand how children who have suffered from malnutrition or starvation need food and plenty of care in their bodies are to recover...”
“I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not speak for others. So I do not speak for things which profess to speak for others....”
“Your eye will no longer linger on the light, it will no longer trace constellations. You'll care only about the darkness and you'll watch it for hours, for days, maybe even for years, trying in vai...”
“Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.”
“In the end Navidson is left with one page and one match. For a long time he waits in darkness and cold, postponing this final bit of illumination. At last though, he grips the match by the neck and...”
“You wouldn't believe how much harder it's getting for me to just leave my studio. It's really sad. In fact these days the only thing that gets me outside is when I say: Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck you. ...”
“Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of not knowing.”
“Do not wake me from this slumber, but be assured that just as I have wept much, I have also wandered many roads with my thoughts.”
