💬 Quotes

"All is vanity! It is all vanity, and vexation of spirit."

"The world is not built on truth; it is built on the stories we are comfortable believing."

"You cannot build a utopia on a foundation of rot and expect the walls to hold forever."

"Power is not a light to be wielded, but a gravity that pulls everything toward its own ruin."

"To be a scholar is to be a ghost in your own life, haunting the dusty pages of history while the present burns around you."

"If the price of progress is the silence of the oppressed, then we are not advancing; we are merely entrenching our sins."

"The most dangerous thing in the world is a mind that has been taught to solve problems but never to question them."

"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs."

"If you ain't scared, you ain't human."

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings."

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more."

"It is a terrible thing to learn the truth about what one loves."

"We are all of us haunted by the people we have lost and the people we have yet to find."

"History is not a burden on the present, but a map of the shadows we are destined to walk through."

"Some books are so dangerous that they must be found, even if they destroy the one who seeks them."

"The past is never truly dead; it is waiting, just behind the curtain of the present, for someone to draw the fabric aside."

"There are secrets in this world that are not meant to be kept, but only to be survived."

"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."

"Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."