Wasting Quotes

A collection of words that have been said.

[mournfulroses]

Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, from a diary entry featured in The Selected Diaries of Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius

[amybo-bamy]

Don’t threaten me with a good time

[minimalistquotes]

If it costs you your peace, it is too expensive.

-Paulo Coelho

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[remanence-of-love]

[mournfulroses]

Marina Tsvetaeva, from a letter to Boris Pasternak featured in Letters, Summer 1926

[vexheart]

[surqrised]

“When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.”

— Rumi

[thoughtkick]

“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.”

— Donna Tartt

[remanence-of-love]

[sunsetandfun]

This.....

[poisonintheink]

— ʀ.ᴛ.

[mournfulroses]

Rainer Maria Rilke, from a poem titled "To The Beloved," featured in The Book of Hours II

[philosophybits]

“The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[quotespile]

“And there it was again, that useless, human blame two people will toss between each other when they become too tired or weak to carry the weight of love.”

— Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

[thoughtkick]

“I don’t regret us but I wouldn’t do it again.”

— Unknown

[mournfulroses]

Ioanna Tsatsou, from a journal entry featured in Hours on Sinai, originally published in 1984

[metamorphesque]

The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas