Quotexhappinexx

Currently writing a collection of poems in French.

[quotexhappinexx]

For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn't escape scent. For scent was a brother of breath. Together with breath it entered human beings, who couldn't defend themselves against it, not if they wanted to live. And scent entered into their very core, went directly to their hearts, and decided for good and all between affection and contempt, disgust and lust, love and hate. He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.

Patrick Süskind, from “Perfume : The Story of a Murderer”

[quotexhappinexx]

Hate is love on fire, set out to burn like a flare on the side of the road. It says, stop here. Something terrible has happened. Envy is like, the skin you're in burns. And the salve is someone else's skin.

Alexander Chee, from “Edinburgh”

[quotexhappinexx]

And in that moment, I swear, we were infinite.

Stephen Chbosky, from “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”

[quotexhappinexx]

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Mahamat Gandhi

[quotexhappinexx]

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[quotexhappinexx]

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Eleanor Roosevelt

[quotexhappinexx]

I am the master of my fate : I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley, from “Invictus”

[quotexhappinexx]

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they ?

Virginia Woolf, from “Night and Day”

[quotexhappinexx]

I seem to drink Bohemian wine Victorious and tart, A liquid sky that strews benign Stars in my peaceful heart.

Charles Baudelaire, from “The Dancing Serpent”

[quotexhappinexx]

And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk.

Arthur Rimbaud, from “The Drunken Boat”

[quotexhappinexx]

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes Of my beautiful Annabel Lee.

Edgar Allan Poe, from “Annabel Lee”

[quotexhappinexx]

Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What ! You too ? I thought that no one but myself ...

C.S. Lewis, from “The Four Loves”

[quotexhappinexx]

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Cesare Pavese, from “The Burning Brand : Diaries”

[quotexhappinexx]

I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything. Maybe we’re from the same star.

Emery Allen, from “Become”

[quotexhappinexx]

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, from “Manon, Ballerina”

[quotexhappinexx]

Alice : How long is forever ? White Rabbit : Sometimes, just one second.

Lewis Carroll, from “ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland“

[quotexhappinexx]

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Ernest Hemingway, quoted in "With Hemingway by Arnold Samuelson"