Karina > Karina's Quotes

“Most people come to New York to be discovered. The rest of us come here to hide.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“«El amor, cuando llega, puede ser muy ciego, pero cuando se va, es muy lúcido».”
― Marian Rojas Estapé, Encuentra tu persona vitamina

“Algunas personas causan felicidad ahí donde caminan,
otras la proporcionan cuando se van.”
― Marian Rojas Estapé, Encuentra tu persona vitamina

“Remember, love that doesn't include honesty doesn't deserve to be called love.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“You know, one of the hardest things to admit is that we weren’t loved when we needed it most. It’s a terrible feeling, the pain of not being loved.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“The aim of therapy is not to correct the past, but to enable the patient to confront his own history, and to grieve over it. —ALICE MILLER”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“But I stayed and I married her and we started our family because I always believed that deeper connection was within reach. I thought I'd wake up one day and look her in the eyes and then it would click, like that mythical puzzle piece had finally snapped into place.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“Lograba mantener en la superficie una sonrisa que nunca abandonaba mis labios; esta era la acomodación que ofrecía a los demás, un logro muy precario realizado por mí solo a costa de esfuerzos agónicos en mi interior.”
― Osamu Dazai, Indigno de ser humano

“Pensé: "Quiero morir. Quiero morir más que nunca. Ya no hay posibilidad de recuperación. No importa qué tipo de cosa haga, lo que haga, seguramente será un fracaso, solo una capa final aplicada a mi vergüenza.”
― Osamu Dazai, Indigno de ser humano

“Las personas que temen a otros seres humanos desean ver espectros de apariencia todavía más horrible (...)”
― Osamu Dazai, Indigno De Ser Humano (No Longer Human): Spanish and English Editions

“Por lo general, las personas no muestran lo terribles que son. (...) Basta que se dé la ocasión para que muestren su horrenda naturaleza.”
― Osamu Dazai, Indigno De Ser Humano Osamu Dazai (Nueva Traducción)

“The only thing harder than seeing yourself grow old is seeing the people you’ve loved grow old.”
― Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

“I don't know who it was, but someone, maybe or maybe not Henry James, said that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who upon seeing someone else suffering think, That could happen to me, and those who think, That will never happen to me. The first kind of people help us to endure, the second kind make life hell.”
― Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

“Someone has said, When you are born into this world there are at least two of you, but going out you are on your own. Death happens to every one of us, yet it remains the most solitary of human experiences, one that separates rather than unites us.”
― Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

“What are you going through? When Simone Weil said that being able to ask this question was what love of one's neighbor truly meant, she was writing in her native French. And in French the great question sounds quite different: Quel est ton tourment?”
― Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

“I think it's largely true, what I once heard a famous playwright say, that there are no truly stupid human beings, no uninteresting human lives, and that you'd discover this if you were willing to sit and listen to people.”
― Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

“The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, “What are you going through?” —Simone Weil”
― Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

“Be kind, because everyone you meet is going through a struggle.”
― Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

“there exists a word, onsra, in Bodo, a language spoken by the Bodo people in parts of northeastern India, that is used to describe the poignant emotion a person experiences when that person realizes that the love they have been sharing with another is destined not to endure.”
― Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

“I don’t know who it was, but someone, maybe or maybe not Henry James, said that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who upon seeing someone else suffering think, That could happen to me, and those who think, That will never happen to me. The first kind of people help us to endure, the second kind make life hell.”
― Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

“Anyway, don't they say that every good story is a suspense story?
And every story is a love story.
And every love story is a ghost story.
And everybody loves somebody sometime.”
― Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“The Seven Commandments:
Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
No animal shall wear clothes.
No animal shall sleep in a bed.
No animal shall drink alcohol.
No animal shall kill any other animal.
All animals are equal.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm