A collection of quotes I've come across in books, music, movies, etc, that I find interesting, funny, profound, or odd
…The movement of ours is a very different affair. We deny the snobbish English assumption that the uneducated are dangerous criminals. We remember the Roman Emperors. We remember the great poisoning princes of the Renaissance. We say that the most dangerous criminal is the educated criminal…
— “The Man Who Was Thursday”, GK Chesterton
And, as in all nightmares, there comes a terrible moment when the dreamer must awake…
— “The Man Who Was Thursday”
Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
— Voltaire (via girlinlondon)
(via girlinlondon)
Source: jonathanmoore
I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an air tight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one
— J.D. Salinger
Keep me up until five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason
— J.D. Salinger “Seymour: An Introduction”
Our good fortune allowed us to feel a sadness our parents never had time for
— Oliver, “Beginners”
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
— John Steinbeck (via accidentalism)
Source: accidentalism
It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with a balcony overlooking the town and the harbor; then you sat there and drank until something happened
— Hunter S. Thompson “The Rum Diary”
For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (via lesavions)
Source: lesavions
She wondered why someone would bother to write that; but then, “Why bother” was never a question you could ask about more or less anything on the internet, otherwise the whole bunch of them shriveled to a cotton-candy nothing
— Nick Hornby, “Juliet, Naked”
