Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer
Wenn Du durchaus nur die Wahl hast, zwischen einer Unwahrheit und einer Grobheit, dann wähle die Grobheit. Wenn jedoch die Wahl getroffen werden muß zwischen einer Unwahrheit und einer Grausamkeit, dann wähle die Unwahrheit.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 39.
“Chance is necessity hidden behind a veil.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer
Der Zufall ist die in Schleier gehüllte Notwendigkeit.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 20.
“I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.”
Clarice Lispector book The Hour of the Star
Source: The Hour of the Star
“You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.”
Clarice Lispector (1920–1977) Brazilian writer
Source: The Stream of Life
“She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed”
Clarice Lispector book The Hour of the Star
Source: The Hour of the Star
“The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.”
Clarice Lispector book The Passion According to G.H.
Source: The Passion According to G.H.
“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
“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
“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
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
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.
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
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
