Margarita > Margarita's Quotes

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“if someone really wants to see you, they always find a way. Always.”
― Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?

“I really think guys only need two pairs of shoes. A nice pair of black shoes and a pair of Chuck Taylors.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“A remarkable thing about me is that the time that elapses between a sad thought and a flood of tears is three or four seconds.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“Listen, my body is attracted to your body but when you speak it makes my brain angry.”
― Mindy Kaling

“I was not made for the desk and counting-house, for petty business squabbling, and legal jangling.”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“Beauty is the only master to serve.”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“limited minds can recognize limitations only in others. ”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“Юноша, одержимый любовью, мог умереть за поцелуй, но не за тридцать тысяч долларов в год!”
― Jack London, Мартин Иден

“Comfort can be dangerous. Comfort provides a floor but also a ceiling.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad. Where you either hate them or love them. But that's not how people are.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“In one window looked two. One saw the rain and mud.
Other — green foliage ligature, spring and the sky is blue.
In one window looked two.”
― Omar Khayyám

“To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much
Just remember two main rules for the beginning:
You better starve, than eat whatever
And better be alone, than with whoever.”
― Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat

“You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“The only way to learn is to live.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“You don’t have to understand life. You just have to live it.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Sometimes just to say your own truth out loud is enough to find others like you.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“In my mind are all the tides, their seasons, their ebbs and their flows.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I am always half in life, half in a fantastical version of it in my head.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“The contents of supermarket baskets are surely evidence that none of us are coping with adulthood all that well.”
― Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

“But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if
evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows
disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the
shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings.
Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because
of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly.
The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation.
"I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“You might expect that seeing so much pain and suffering might help you keep your own difficulties in perspective but, alas, it does not.”
― Henry Marsh, Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

“It's an incredible paradox that being a doctor is so degrading and yet is so valued by society”
― Samuel Shem, The House of God