💬 Quotes
8,730 quotes from great books
"To be alive is to be a player in the game. To be dead is to be off the board. Choose your moves wisely, for the board is always changing."
— Shōgunby James Clavell
"History is a dream left behind by those who are dead. The future is a dream we are all creating together."
— Shōgunby James Clavell
"Karma is the sum of all your past deeds. It is the inescapable weight you carry into every tomorrow."
— Shōgunby James Clavell
"When you are a guest, you are a master of nothing, and yet, in the right hands, a guest can become the master of everything."
— Shōgunby James Clavell
"Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't."
— Schindler's Listby Thomas Keneally
"The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All around its margins lies the gulf."
— Schindler's Listby Thomas Keneally
"The past is a pool of darkness. We look into it and see only our own reflections."
— Libra. Don Delilloby Don DeLillo
"Everything is connected in the end. The gun and the hand, the hand and the mind, the mind and the history."
— Libra. Don Delilloby Don DeLillo
"History is a transcript of events, but it is not the events themselves. There is always a gap, a space where the secrets hide."
— Libra. Don Delilloby Don DeLillo
"They want a grand design. They want to believe that someone, somewhere, is pulling the strings. It is more comforting to be a pawn in a great game than a victim of a random act."
— Libra. Don Delilloby Don DeLillo
"He was a man who lived in the margins of his own life, waiting for the world to notice him, and when it finally did, it was through the sights of a rifle."
— Libra. Don Delilloby Don DeLillo
"The bullet is a point of departure. It changes everything. It creates a new reality where the truth is no longer a matter of evidence, but a matter of faith."
— Libra. Don Delilloby Don DeLillo
"They were all alone in the world and they knew it, and they knew they had to be hard to survive, but they didn’t know how to be hard without being cruel."
— Last Exit to Brooklynby Hubert Selby, Jr.
"And it was like this always, the same thing over and over, the same feeling, the same desperate need to be loved, to be held, to be wanted."
— Last Exit to Brooklynby Hubert Selby, Jr.
"He felt a great wave of loneliness wash over him, a loneliness so profound it made him want to scream, but he remained silent, staring into the dark."
— Last Exit to Brooklynby Hubert Selby, Jr.
"The world was a cruel and indifferent place, and the only way to endure it was to become as cruel and indifferent as the world itself."
— Last Exit to Brooklynby Hubert Selby, Jr.
"Maybe it was better not to think, not to feel, just to exist in the moment, in the pain, and let the rest of the world go to hell."
— Last Exit to Brooklynby Hubert Selby, Jr.
"They were part of the darkness, they were the darkness, and there was no light for them, no redemption, only the unending struggle for survival."
— Last Exit to Brooklynby Hubert Selby, Jr.