Latest Quotes

“Although letters seem to facilitate communication and proximity, they produce instead a distance in which writers find the chance to become writers.”

— Vincent Kaufmann, Post Scripts: The Writer's Workshop

“Memories, like olives, are an acquired taste.”

— Max Beerbohm, The Promise of a New Day: A Book of Daily Meditations

“Even in dreams be kind.”

— Jack Kerouac, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)

“Your eyes are full of language.”

— Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are diffe…”

— Arundhati Roy, War Talk

“I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.”

— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“It is somehow like a nightmare to see someone change in front of your eyes, to become a stranger and not to be able, with just your love, to make them that familiar person again.”

— Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

“Happiness [is] only real when shared.”

— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.”

— Ellen Degeneres, Ellen DeGeneres I Stand For Honesty Equality Kindness Compassion

“I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle.”

— Kanye West, 'I Am God's Vessel': Kanye West's Most WTF Quotes

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens…”

— Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum: A Novel (P.S.)

“Where we get in trouble with money is when we don’t admit what we want is respect. Or that what we want is a sense of contributing something important to the world.”

— Anna Sale, Interview with Podcaster Anna Sale of Death, Sex & Money

“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty e…”

— Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe

“I think the great illusion of adulthood is that you’re going to get to this phase and be like ‘Oh, now I feel grounded and I feel like I know how to get from here to there.’ But that’s the thing with life. Maybe that’s so and then somebody gets sick and you have to deal with all the feelings that co…”

— Anna Sale, Interview with Podcaster Anna Sale of Death, Sex & Money

“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the wor…”

— David W. Orr, Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World (Bioneers)

“I like to sit at the airport. I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the…”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close

“I am drawn to stories where people can tell me what happened when everything fell apart. And not so much that their life became a total wreck, but how life unfolded and did not match up with their expectations.”

— Anna Sale, Interview with Podcaster Anna Sale of Death, Sex & Money

“We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close

“At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough.”

— Lemony Snicket, The Complete Wreck (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Books 1-13)

“I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.”

— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel