Saving Quotes

A collection of quotes which I stumble upon from literature, films, music and TV shows. Mostly for you.

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"Mrs. Fried who lived a long life with many strange twists she could never have imagined as a child."

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"Death was busy. So many to tend to."

Leopold Gursky, The History of Love.

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"There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead."

Leopold Gursky, The History of Love.

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"I imagined my death in a hundred different ways, but the funeral was always the same: from somewhere in my imagination, out rolled a red carpet. Because after every secret death I died, my greatness was always discovered."

Leopold Gursky, The History of Love.

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"I was left with a sadness that couldn't be rubbed off. I dragged this new awareness around like a stone tied to my ankle. Wherever I went, it followed."

Leopold Gursky, The History of Love.

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"Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist. These are still those that lie beyond our capacity and our imitation. From time to time, when a piece of music no one has ever written, or a painting no one has ever painted, or something else impossible to predict, fathom, or yet describe takes place, a new feeling enters the world. And then, for the millionth time in history of feeling, the heart surges, and absorbs the impact."

Leopold Gursky, The History of Love.

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"It's possible that this is how art was born. New kinds of joy were forged, along with new kinds of sadness: The enteral disappointment of life as it is; the relief of unexpected reprieve; the fear of dying."

Leopold Gursky, The History of Love.

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"Having begun to feel, people's desire to feel grew. They wanted to feel more, feel deeper, despite how much it sometimes hurt. People became addicted to feeling."

Leopold Gursky, The History of Love.

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"Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you."

Nicole Krauss, The History of Love.

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""It's better when it's a secret." "Why?" "So no one can take it from us!""

Nicole Krauss, The History of Love.

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"The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces."

Leopold Gursky, The History of Love.

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"I thought it would be strange to live in the world without her in it. And yet. I'd gotten used to living with her memory a long time ago."

Leopold Gursky, The History of Love.

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"I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life."

Leopold Gursky, The History of Love.

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"Suddenly filled with a longing he hadn't known he'd been carrying around inside him for years - came to life."

Leopold Gursky, The History of Love.

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"Her kiss was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."

Alma Singer, The History of Love.

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"She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her."

Alma Singer, The History of Love.

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"Part of you thought: Please don't look at me. If you don't, I can still turn away. And a part of you thought: look at me."

Alma Singer, The History of Love.