Quotes - Kelsey Fusak (Wausau, WI) Showing 1-30 of 168

#1

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

7280 likes

#2

“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

2790 likes

#3

“You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

59 likes

#4

“No one is normal. Everyone is just pretending to be normal.”
― Alessandra Torre, The Girl in 6E

tags: advice, humorous-quotes, reality

129 likes

#5

“Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity.”
― Alessandra Torre, The Girl in 6E

tags: danger, despair, hope, hopeless, insane, insanity, insanity-is-normal, tragedy

42 likes

#6

“Disappointment in others is tough. But disappointment in yourself is far worse.”
― Alessandra Torre, The Girl in 6E

17 likes

#7

“Others letting you down is ice cream and cookies compared with the rejection of your own soul. I don’t know what is sadder, expecting myself to fail or being too scared to dream of success.”
― Alessandra Torre, The Girl in 6E

17 likes

#8

“They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

tags: darkness, happiness, omelas, unknown, walk-away

79 likes

#9

“If you were God, what kind of human would you create?" I asked.

"I wouldn't change how they look. But I would make them as dumb as chickens. So dumb they'd never even imagine the existence of a god.”
― Hitomi Kanehara, Snakes And Earrings

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#10

“I collapsed on to the ground and broke down in tears. Screw you. Go to hell, you fuckers. I wish I had a greater vocabulary to fully express the extent of my pain and hatred. But I don't. I'm just pathetic. That's all I am.”
― Hitomi Kanehara, Snakes And Earrings

12 likes

#11

“People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

364 likes

#12

“No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

tags: death

328 likes

#13

“Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

258 likes

#14

“Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

139 likes

#15

“Over and over, we begin again.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

110 likes

#16

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

178951 likes

#17

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

136199 likes

#18

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

127842 likes

#19

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

119723 likes

#20

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

101830 likes

#21

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

109756 likes

#22

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

93998 likes

#23

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

82176 likes

#24

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

77100 likes

#25

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

tags: life, love

62625 likes

#26

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

51795 likes

#27

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: dreams, life

48231 likes

#28

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

27772 likes

#29

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

23619 likes

#30

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

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