Book quotes

“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!

"no farmers, no food" (its not a book quote, it was a picture of the words farmers in protest made with there tractors, but i like it anyway🙂)

“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

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.” ― Albert Camus

¨Tell them to walk in the shade. To listen with their eyes, to see with their skin, and to feel with their ears. Because life speaks to all of us, and we just need to know how and be willing to listen to it, to see it, to feel it."

- Sofia Segovia, El murmullo de las abejas.

"Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick! And generally he's unable to say what he's going to do this same evening" ---- Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

“The blessed time of my youth passes by, I pour out the wine of my oblivion. Bitter it is, and thus it pleases me. For this bitterness is the zest of my life.” ― Amin Maalouf, Samarkand

“If the world can love each other, countries will not attack each other, families will not cause chaos, there will be no thieves, and the ruler, ministers, fathers and sons will all be filial and kind, then the world will be governed in this way.”——《墨子》

"So deutsch ist diese BRD allemal, daß anarchischer Individualismus nur Ernst Jünger und als Hit in Programmkinos erlaubt ist!" (Jörg Fauser, "Der Weg nach El Paso, 1985.)

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.” But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.” ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet