Latest Quotes

“What do we do now, now that we are happy?”

— Samuel Beckett, Waiting For Godot

“Right now I want a word that describes the feeling that you get—a cold sick feeling, deep down inside—when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don’t want it to, but you can’t stop it. And you know, for the first time, for the very first time, that there will now be a before…”

— Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light

“An amazing thing happens when you stop seeking approval and validation: You find it. People are naturally drawn like magnets to those who know who they are and cannot be shaken.”

— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman

“You knew me once, but you won’t know me twice.”

— James Joyce, Finnegan’s Wake

“We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.”

— Kavita Ramdas, Mount Holyoke Commencement Speech

“It isn't premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married.”

— Drew Carey, quotegarden.com

“It may be the wrong decision, but fuck it, it's mine.”

— Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we give up on ourselves when our lives are just starting? Things get hard and we immediately back away and assume that means we’re going in the wrong direction, doing the wrong thing. If anything, when the…”

— Rachel Van Dyken, Toxic

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”

— Frank Zappa, College Is for Suckers: The First College Guide You Should Read

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”

— Oscar Wilde, Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animals

“All night, this soft rain from the distant past. No wonder I sometimes waken as a child.”

— Ted Kooser, ‘Starlight,’ Delights & Shadows

“The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Chastened: The Unexpected Story of My Year without Sex

“You must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“My heartbeat and breaths all sound too loud, as if I, such an overall insignificant specimen in these muted hours, am occupying too large of a space; too dense and volatile of an existence to be permitted a moment of contented peace.”

— Mia Ingallina, Not Being Alone Is A Beautiful Feeling

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side Of Paradise

“Sex is… perfectly natural. It’s something that’s pleasurable. It’s enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don’t we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual?”

— Sue Johanson, The Little Free Book of Uncensored Celebrity Sex Quotes

“Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.”

— Marilyn Monroe, Censoring Hollywood: Sex and Violence in Film

“But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.”

— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”

— Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“You are a shadow my body leaves on other girls.”

— Jon Sands, A Working List of Things I Will Never Tell You