A V A N C E Z

[quotemadness]

“I like airplanes. I like anywhere that isn’t a proper place. I like in betweens.”

— Neil Gaiman

[quotemadness]

“The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

[philosophybits]

“Most people cannot stand being alone for long. They are always seeking groups to belong to, and if one group dissolves, they look for another. We are group animals still, and there is nothing wrong with that. But what is dangerous is not the belonging to a group, or groups, but not understanding the social laws that govern groups and govern us. When we’re in a group, we tend to think as that group does: we may even have joined the group to find ‘like-minded’ people. But we also find our thinking changing because we belong to a group. It is the hardest thing in the world to maintain an individual dissent opinion, as a member of a group.”

— Doris Lessing, Prisons We Choose to Live Inside (via quotespile)

[the-book-diaries]

“I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.”

— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice

[the-book-diaries]

“If there’s no love, what then?”

— Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

[the-book-diaries]

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”

— Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper

[the-book-diaries]

“Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging at your back and running its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do—the only thing—is run.”

— Lauren Oliver, Delirium

[quotemadness]

“The best advice I’ve ever received: ‘no one else knows what they are doing either.’”

— Charles Bukowski

[a-pale-fire]

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

[quotespile]

“When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

[a-pale-fire]

“…the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”

— Carl Jung

[quotespile]

“Sometimes feelings are like that – not positive, not negative, just a lot.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Here I Am

[philosophybits]

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”

— Voltaire, Questions sur l'Encyclopédie

[quotespile]

“When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.”

— Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

[philosophybits]

“Do not consider painful what is good for you.”

— Euripides, Medea

[the-book-diaries]

“Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”

— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

[the-book-diaries]

“I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.”

— Albert Camus, The Fall