Book quotes

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Post your favourite quotes from Books, movies, TV, wheteher they are philosophical, epic or funny and talk about them.

"Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something." ---- Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

I have the quote "To the stars who listen" tattooed on me with a star. It's a quote from Sarah J. Maas' "A Court of Thornes and Roses" and the full quote is "To the stars who listen and the dreams that are answered". I haven't read the book tho... I just got it because I really like this quote😅

"In general, people only ask for advice that they mat not follow it; or, if they should follow it, that they may have somebody to blame for having given it."

- Alexandre Dumas (the character Athos was the one who said that, but the book was written by Alexandre Dumas, sooo...), The Three Musketeers

Watch the Film "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" and you will get every minute a quote, that is full of wisdom. One of my favorites: "God's not on our side because he hates idiots also."

One quote that kinda stuck with me is from „Echos of Honor“ from the Honor Harrington series by David Weber, that I‘m currently reading.

„Old fashioned nuclear fratricide“

Not very deep or anything, but I think it just sounds cool

i have my favorite quote in parenting book that i love

it's written that "It doesn't matter who take initiates (in communication), because the question lies in whether the ego is more important, or the relationship (child and parent)" and "Most problems (between child and parent) arise due to misunderstandings caused by lack of communication, mostly parent act like they know what best for their child while even for smallest things need proper communication"

anyway, i really hope this book has english translation, because it such an excellent book. In these book has perspective and explanation about every parent fear, worry, overthink, hidden thought etc which is often unspoken or hidden by parents (because they often think that it's unnecessary to talk about it, while actually not really)

„Am 4. Mai 1771 - Wie froh ich bin, daß ich weg bin! Bester Freund, was ist das Herz des Menschen!“ (Goehte, Die Leiden des jungen Werthers - first phrases)

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.” ― Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy,

"The first time I laid eyes on Terry Lennox he was drunken in a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraight outside the terrace of the Dancers" - First phrase taken from "The Long Goodbye" - great Noir novel written by the great Raymond Chandler!

“All human wisdom is contained in these two words--"Wait and Hope.” ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

"Every dog has its day!", Stephen King, The Stand!

“Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The most important step a man can take is always the next one

The Stormlight Archive Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson

I found one of the best quotes ever to be the one from Leo Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata: 'It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.'

Leo Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata (1889) presents a fiery indictment of marriage, jealousy, and desire that was censored in Russia. Its narrator, Pozdnyshev, confesses to murdering his wife in a fit of possessive rage, which sounds startlingly modern to this day.

Few know that Tolstoy was inspired by a real court case and his own turbulent marriage — his wife Sophia famously protested the novel’s radical views on celibacy. The story’s title comes from Beethoven’s violin sonata, which Tolstoy saw as dangerously sensual.

A much better read in the original – you can access the complete story here: https://zelluloza.ru/books/18692-Sobranie_sochineniy_v_dvadcati_dvuh_tomah_Tom_12_Proizvedeniya_1885–1902_gg-Lev_Nikolaevich_Tolstoy/

“Don't be afraid, the darkness you're in is no greater than the darkness inside your own body, they are two darknesses separated by a skin, I bet you've never thought of that, you carry a darkness about with you all the time and that doesn't frighten you...my dear chap, you have to learn to live with the darkness outside just as you learned to live with the darkness inside” ― José Saramago

'Uh oh'

Normal reaction of the first-time visitor

(Quote from the book "The Alien's Survival Manual - An Outsider's Guide To The Planet Earth" by Serena Gray)

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"Experience, the most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God, do you learn."

C. S. Lewis