๐Ÿ’ฌ Quotes

8,724 quotes from great books

"Cazad por vuestra comida, pero nunca matรฉis por deporte; la muerte es una necesidad, no un pasatiempo."
โ€” Libro de la Selvaby Rudyard Kipling
"People die because they lose the will to live. Or perhaps they just lose the will to be anything else."
โ€” I Am the Messengerby Markus Zusak
"Iโ€™m not a messiah. Iโ€™m just a taxi driver who happens to have a few messages."
โ€” I Am the Messengerby Markus Zusak
"Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of."
โ€” I Am the Messengerby Markus Zusak
"You don't have to be anything more than your ordinary self to do something extraordinary."
โ€” I Am the Messengerby Markus Zusak
"Itโ€™s not the big things that hurt the most. Itโ€™s the suckers in the middle. The ones you never see coming."
โ€” I Am the Messengerby Markus Zusak
"I am the messenger. And I am the message."
โ€” I Am the Messengerby Markus Zusak
"Whatever happens, happens. No matter how much you suffer, the clock keeps ticking."
โ€” Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the Worldby Haruki Murakami
"To tell the truth, Iโ€™m not really sure if I exist. Iโ€™m like a dream that someone else is dreaming."
โ€” Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the Worldby Haruki Murakami
"Iโ€™m not a hero. Iโ€™m just a guy who does his job. But maybe thatโ€™s all anyone is, when you get down to it."
โ€” Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the Worldby Haruki Murakami
"The wall is what separates the inside from the outside, the self from the world, the dream from the reality."
โ€” Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the Worldby Haruki Murakami
"If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets."
โ€” Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the Worldby Haruki Murakami
"Time doesn't pass in the Town. It just accumulates, layer upon layer, like sediment."
โ€” Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the Worldby Haruki Murakami
"Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to be the life of a human being."
โ€” No Longer Humanby Osamu Dazai
"I have always trembled with fear before human beings. Being of the same species as they, I have found it impossible to grasp the nature of their true intentions."
โ€” No Longer Humanby Osamu Dazai
"Human beings, who are always betrayed by other human beings, yet still seem to remain friends and feel no mistrust."
โ€” No Longer Humanby Osamu Dazai
"What is society? Is it not an individual?"
โ€” No Longer Humanby Osamu Dazai
"I felt that for me, happiness lay in the days of human beings, which I could not understand at all. I had already lost the possibility of ever being happy."
โ€” No Longer Humanby Osamu Dazai
"It is not that I am particularly miserable. It is just that everything has become so much trouble."
โ€” No Longer Humanby Osamu Dazai
"The collapse of the planned economy was not a failure of socialist ideals, but a systemic rejection of the bureaucratic shroud that had strangled them."
โ€” Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!by Todor Bombov