Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt. Man errs as long as he strives.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And what does really matter? That is easy: thinking and doing, doing and thinking--and these are the sum of all wisdom. . . . Both must move ever onward in life, to and fro, like breathing in and breathing out.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man errs as long as he strives.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One lives but once in the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sing it not in mournful numbers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.

Kurt Cobain

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

Kevyn Aucoin

The future belongs to thouse with open minds aand open hearts, who can appreciate beauty in all it's forms.

Khaled Hosseini

After all, life is not a Hindi movie.

Khaled Hosseini

Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of violence because of participating in this movie, we would have chosen children from outside this country.

Khaled Hosseini

She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and it accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

Khaled Hosseini

Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how people like us suffer, she'd said. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.

Khaled Hosseini

I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

Khaled Hosseini

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

Khaled Hosseini

It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...

Khaled Hosseini

She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I asked her why and she said, 'They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.

Khalil Gibran

Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?

Khalil Gibran

The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.

Khalil Gibran

Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

Khalil Gibran

He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.

Khalil Gibran

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

Khalil Gibran

And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless?

Khalil Gibran

All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.

Khalil Gibran

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep.

Khalil Gibran

All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.