💬 Quotes

"The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary."

"Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?"

"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist."

"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the universe. That makes us something very special."

"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus and its devastation, which put pains thousandfold upon the Achaeans."

"Like the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning. So one generation of men will grow while another dies."

"I am afraid of my own heart, lest perhaps I may become a god, for no mortal man who eats bread can match the strength of the immortals."

"For my mother Thetis the goddess of silver feet tells me I carry two sorts of destiny toward the day of my death. If I stay here and fight, I will never return home, but my glory will be imperishable; whereas if I go home, my glorious name will perish, but my life will be long."

"I have gone through what no other mortal on earth has gone through; I put my lips to the hands of the man who has killed my children."

"There is nothing alive more agonized than man of all that breathe and crawl across the earth."

"Whatever you bury in the past will come back to haunt you, not as a ghost, but as a lesson you aren't yet ready to learn."

"The secrets we keep from others are nothing compared to the secrets we keep from ourselves."

"What does it mean to be whole? To be perfect? I think we are all broken in some way, and it is in that brokenness that we find our humanity."

"Photography is a way of freezing time, of capturing a moment so that it can never be lost, even if everything else slips away."

"You can spend your life trying to rewrite the past, but the ink is already dry. The only thing you can change is the way you read the story."

"Love is not about possession; it is about release. It is about letting go of the person you thought you needed so they can become who they truly are."

"People talk about their inner demons. I have an inner mechanic, a well-oiled machine that needs a specific kind of fuel to keep running."

"I am a very neat monster. I clean up after myself, and I never leave a trace behind—unless, of course, I want to be found."

"Il a mis un couteau sur les choses qui nous tenaient ensemble et nous avons volé en éclats."

"Parmi les Igbo, l'art de la conversation est considéré comme très estimé, et les proverbes sont l'huile avec laquelle on mange les mots."