hana77 favourite quotes (page 8) | Quotes of famous people

“Who hasn't asked oneself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?”

Clarice Lispector (1920–1977) Brazilian writer

The Hour of the Star (1977)
Source: A Hora Da Estrela

“Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.”

M. Scott Peck (1936–2005) American psychiatrist

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

"Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)"; similar expressions were used by others prior to Lennon's use of this line, and have been attributed to Betty Talmadge, Thomas La Mance, Margaret Millar, William Gaddis, and Lily Tomlin, but the earliest known published occurrence was the 1957 attribution of "Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans." to Allen Saunders in Reader's Digest, according to The Quote Verifier : Who Said What, Where, and When (2006) by Ralph Keyes
Lyrics, Double Fantasy (1980)
Variant: Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Variant: Life is what happens while you are making other plans.

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“All idealism is mendacity in the face of what is necessary.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Ecce homo

Source: Ecce Homo, chapter Why I Am So Clever

“My formula for greatness in a human being is … that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity.
Not merely bear what is necessary, …but love it.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Ecce homo

Source: Ecce Homo, chapter Why I Am So Clever

“He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“Only great pain is the ultimate liberator of the spirit….
I doubt that such pain makes us ‘better’; but I know that it makes us more profound.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book The Gay Science

Source: The Gay Science

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book The Dawn

Man verdirbt einen Jüngling am sichersten, wenn man ihn anleitet, den Gleichdenkenden höher zu achten, als den Andersdenkenden.
The Dawn, Sec. 297

“The brief madness of bliss is experienced only by those who suffer the most deeply.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: This Spoke Zarathustra (Tak pravil Zarathustra)

“There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“All problems are unsolvable. The essence of the existence of a problem is that there is no solution. Looking for a fact means there is no fact. To think is not to know how to be.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 123
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Todos os problemas são insolúveis. A essência de haver um problema é não haver solução. Procurar um facto significa não haver um facto. Pensar é não saber existir.

“To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.)”

Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher

“I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“We never love someone. We just love the idea we have of someone. It's a concept of ours - summing up, ourselves - that we love.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 125
Original: Nunca amamos niguém. Amamos, tão-somente, a ideia que fazemos de alguém. É a um conceito nosso — em suma, é a nós mesmos — que amamos.
Source: The Book of Disquiet

“My past is everything I failed to be.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

O meu passado é tudo quanto não consegui ser.
Source: The Book of Disquietude, trans. Richard Zenith, text 100

“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.”

Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher

Não há nenhuma ideia inteligente que possa ganhar aceitação geral sem ser misturada antes com um pouco de estupidez.
The Book of Disquietude, trans. Richard Zenith, text 104

“Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 163
The Book of Disquiet
Original: A experiência directa é o subterfúgio, ou o esconderijo, daqueles que são desprovidos de imaginação.