„Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.“
— Lewis Carroll, book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Variant: But if I’m not the same, the next question is, ‘Who in the world am I?’ Ah, that’s the great puzzle!
Source: Alice in Wonderland
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Lewis Carroll
Birthdate: 27. January 1832
Date of death: 14. January 1898
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll , was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which includes the poem "Jabberwocky", and the poem The Hunting of the Snark – all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic and fantasy. There are societies in many parts of the world dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life.
Works
Quotes Lewis Carroll
„I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.“
Variant: I'm not crazy. My reality is just different than yours.
„Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast“
— Lewis Carroll, book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Variant: Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Source: Alice in Wonderland
„Begin at the beginning, the King said, very gravely, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.“
— Lewis Carroll, book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Source: Alice in Wonderland
„Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.“
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
„Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.“
Variant: Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
„But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.“
— Lewis Carroll, book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Source: Alice in Wonderland
„Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”
“Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
“No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?”
“I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter“
— Lewis Carroll, book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Source: Alice in Wonderland
„I wonder if I've been changed in the night. Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!“
— Lewis Carroll, book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Source: Alice in Wonderland
„It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.“
— Lewis Carroll, book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Source: Alice in Wonderland
„If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?“
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
„I wonder if the snowthe trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.“
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
„One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.“
This is a paraphrase of statement in a thank you note from Carroll to a childhood friend, the actress Ellen Terry, published in Ellen Terry, Player in Her Time (1997), p. 126 https://books.google.com/books?id=2PkzZ9KaRlwC&lpg=PA126&vq=%22do%20for%20others%22&pg=PA126#v=snippet&q=%22do%20for%20others%22&f=fals by Nina Auerbach: "... and so you have found out that secret — one of the deep secrets of Life — that all, that is really worth the doing, is what we do for others?"
Disputed
„I don't think… then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.“
— Lewis Carroll, book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Source: Alice in Wonderland
„I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then“
Variant: I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
„Why it's simply impassible!
Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?
Door: No, I do mean impassible. Nothing's impossible!“
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
