💬 Quotes

"Being a child is a terrible thing to lose, but it is a necessary price for becoming an adult."

"You are a little animal, Lyra, and you have to learn how to be a human being."

"We are all subjects of fate, but we are also the architects of our own destiny."

"Ten little soldier boys went out to dine; one choked his little self and then there were nine."

"I have a definite programme. I intend to commit a murder."

"It’s lonely, isn’t it, down here? And you’re quite alone. Not a soul to hear you scream."

"None of us will ever leave this island."

"There is a whole life before me—and that life has been forever eaten away by a few moments of madness."

"I wanted to find out if I could commit a murder and get away with it, but the law has a long arm."

"We are all haunted by the people we used to be, and the things we left behind in the dark."

"I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew."

"Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it."

"The river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only has it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future."

"I can think, I can wait, I can fast."

"Love is the most important thing of all. To understand the world, to explain it, to despise it, may be the thing great thinkers do. But I am only interested in being able to love the world, not to despise it, not to hate it and myself, but to be able to look upon it and myself and all beings with love and admiration and great respect."

"For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must be now not far off."

"Too much sanity may be madness—and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be!"

"I know who I am, and who I may be, if I choose."

"Patience, and shuffle the cards."

"He who reads much and walks much, sees much and knows much."