Latest Quotes

“there's no clarity. there was never meant to be clarity.”

— Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense

“So what we five deep in a two door whip We gotta get where we going if you fit you fit”

— Joell Ortiz, Brooklyn Bullshit

“There are fields inside me, there are flowers growing and rivers flowing to oceans with no end.”

— Cold Cave, Oceans with no end

“I never felt right being alone; sometimes it felt good but it never felt right.”

— Charles Bukowski, Women

“Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.”

— Charles Bukowski, Women

“The trees like lungs filling with air My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair”

— Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward, you must go back. To touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.”

— George R. R. Martin, A Dance With Dragons

“Human relationships were strange. I mean, you were with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stopped.”

— Charles Bukowski, Women

“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Far more likely is that I, so eager to capture metaphors and twist them around and around until I lose interest, simply find loneliness sometimes too heavy a burden to bear. It is that I, not unlike every other person who has and who will ever walk this earth, look to the million stars twinkling ove…”

— Mia Ingallina, Not Being Alone Is A Beautiful Feeling

“For the great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived, and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinio…”

— John F. Kennedy, "Commencement Address at Yale University," June 11, 1962

“That's all we do, isn't it -- look at things and try new drinks?”

— Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants

“The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh. Film, photography, music: dead. An aesthetic holocaust.”

— Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.”

— Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“But men have been committing heinous acts in the name of God ever since mankind began believing in deities, and extremists exist within all religions.”

— Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven

“Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.”

— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Vocal intensity is frequently necessary for effective communication.”

— Constance Congdon, Tales of the Lost Formicans

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“I see a lot of people As I make the rounds And I hear her name here and there As I go from town to town And I've never gotten used to it I've just learned to turn it off Either I'm too sensitive Or else I'm gettin' soft”

— Bob Dylan, If You See Her, Say Hello