Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Quotes From My Notes that I Want To Share:

"Life has no meaning the moment you lose illusion of
being eternal." Jean-Paul Sartre

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent
one." -Albert Einstein

"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you have conquered
human nature." -Charles Dickens

"The absurd of life is born of the confrontation between
the human call and the unreasonable silence of the
universe." -Albert Camus

"A man is never the same for long. He is continually
changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour."
- G.I. Gurdjieff

"One must do everything one can and then say 'God have
mercy!'" -G.I. Gurdjieff

"Association with human beings lures one into self-
observation." -Franz Kafka

"I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time
wanting things." -Franz Kafka

"I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably
unhappy." -Franz Kafka

"Religions get lost as people do." -Franz Kafka

"The whole difference between construction and creation is
exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after
it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it
exists." -Charles Dickens

"There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart."
-Charles Dickens

"Life is a long lesson in humility." -J.M. Barrie

"The man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls
into the sea." -Joseph Conrad

"Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of
contradiction." -William Blake


A few of my personal favorites[in no particular order]:
*"Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man!
Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are." -Charles Dickens

"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we
create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."
-Franz Kafka

*"Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed.
There ain't much credit in that." -Charles Dickens

*"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows
cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."

"Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence." -Charles Dickens

"The truth is that everyone is bored and devotes himself to cultivating habits."
-Albert Camus

*"Life is one damn thing after another." -Elbert Hubbard

"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature
is constituted to be that profound secret to every other."
-Charles Dickens

1 comment:

caitlin said...

i love these quotes (: