Violet add a quote by Franz Kafka

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 14:14:47 -0800

"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief." -- Franz Kafka

Violet add a quote by John Green

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 18:02:46 -0700

"I...took some pride in 'not fulfilling my potential,' in part because I was terrified that if I tried my hardest, the world would learn I didn't actually have that much potential." -- John Green

Violet add a quote by Sylvia Plath

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:27:07 -0700

"I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet." -- Sylvia Plath

Violet add a quote by Ovid

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 12:58:19 -0700

"Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these." -- Ovid

Violet add a quote by Ray Bradbury

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 06:25:28 -0700

"I care so much I’m sick." -- Ray Bradbury

Violet add a quote by Ray Bradbury

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 06:29:13 -0700

"Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories." -- Ray Bradbury

Violet add a quote by Ray Bradbury

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 06:29:33 -0700

"We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?" -- Ray Bradbury

Violet add a quote by Ray Bradbury

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 06:29:37 -0700

"There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing." -- Ray Bradbury

Violet add a quote by Ray Bradbury

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 06:29:57 -0700

"The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us." -- Ray Bradbury

Violet add a quote by Ray Bradbury

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 06:30:34 -0700

"And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again, he would never carve another piece of wood or help us raise doves and pigeons in the backyard or play the violin the way he did, or tell us jokes the way he did. He was part of us and when he died, all the actions stopped dead and there was no one to do them the way he did. He was individual. He was an important man. I’ve never gotten over his death. Often I think what wonderful carvings never came to birth because he died. How many jokes are missing from the world, and how many homing pigeons untouched by his hands? He shaped the world. He did things to the world. The world was bankrupted of ten million fine actions the night he passed on." -- Ray Bradbury

Violet add a quote by Ray Bradbury

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 06:31:05 -0700

"If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change." -- Ray Bradbury

Violet add a quote by Aldous Huxley

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 03:22:26 -0700

"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.' 'In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.' 'All right then,' said the Savage defiantly, 'I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.' 'Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.' There was a long silence. 'I claim them all,' said the Savage at last. Mustapha Mond shrugged his shoulders. 'You're welcome," he said." -- Aldous Huxley

Violet add a quote by Dr. Seuss

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 08:50:58 -0700

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..." -- Dr. Seuss

Violet add a quote by Robert Frost

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 08:52:28 -0700

"The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." -- Robert Frost

Violet add a quote by Plato

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 08:52:38 -0700

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet." -- Plato

Violet add a quote by Sarah Williams

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 08:52:44 -0700

"I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." -- Sarah Williams

Violet add a quote by J.R.R. Tolkien

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 08:53:14 -0700

"Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun." -- J.R.R. Tolkien

Violet add a quote by Emily Dickinson

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 08:54:25 -0700

"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all." -- Emily Dickinson

Violet add a quote by J.R.R. Tolkien

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 08:54:51 -0700

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater." -- J.R.R. Tolkien

Violet add a quote by Pablo Neruda

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 08:55:14 -0700

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming." -- Pablo Neruda

Violet add a quote by Frank Herbert

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 09:03:04 -0700

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." -- Frank Herbert

Violet add a quote by Robert Frost

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 09:03:21 -0700

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

Violet add a quote by J.K. Rowling

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 09:03:27 -0700

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." -- J.K. Rowling

Violet add a quote by John Green

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 09:03:40 -0700

"Some infinities are bigger than other infinities." -- John Green

Violet add a quote by John Green

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 09:03:45 -0700

"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive." -- John Green

Violet add a quote by J.K. Rowling

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 09:04:32 -0700

"We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving." -- J.K. Rowling

Violet add a quote by Robert Frost

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 09:05:19 -0700

"These woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep." -- Robert Frost

Violet add a quote by J.K. Rowling

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 09:06:27 -0700

"I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!" "You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it." -- J.K. Rowling

Violet add a quote by John Green

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 09:06:35 -0700

"There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does." -- John Green

Violet add a quote by Walt Disney Company

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 09:06:44 -0700

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all." -- Walt Disney Company