Quotes about likeness
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“I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. After all, what is a painter? He is a collector who gets what he likes in others by painting them himself. This is how I begin and then it becomes something else.”

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

Quoted in: Ann Livermore (1988), Artists and Aesthetics in Spain. p. 154
Attributed from posthumous publications

Idea, Painting

“They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.”

Chris Hedges (1956) American journalist

“If you don't like my story, write your own”

Chinua Achebe book Things Fall Apart

Variant: If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
Source: Things Fall Apart

“Like water leaking through a dam," said Piper.
"Yeah," smiled Percy. "We've got a dam hole."
"What?" Piper asked.
"Nothing," he said. "Inside joke.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Smile, Water

“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

World, Personality

“Love me like you'll never see me again.”

Alicia Keys (1981) American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress

Love

“Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.”

Salman Rushdie book Midnight's Children

Source: Midnight's Children

People, Way, Cooking

“Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you're different?”

Tamora Pierce book Alanna: The First Adventure

Source: Alanna: The First Adventure

Thinking

“Darkness got you like Shelob gor Frodo, only worse.”

P. C. Cast book Destined

Source: Destined

“For a country to have a great writer … is like having another government. That’s why no régime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn book The First Circle

Innokenty, in Ch. 57.
Variant translation: For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
The First Circle (1968)

Love, Country

“J. M. W. Turner's Poem dedicated to Ivan Aivazovsky (1842)

Like a curtain slowly drawn
It stops suddenly half open,
Or, like grief itself, filled with gentle hope,
It becomes lighter in the shore-less dark,
Thus the moon barely wanes
Winding her way above the storm-tossed sea.
Stand upon this hill and behold endlessly
This scene of a formidable sea,
And it will seem to thee a waking dream.
That secret mind flowing in thee
Which even the day cannot scatter,
The serenity of thinking and the beating of the heart
Will enchain thee in this vision;
This golden-silver moon
Standing lonely over the sea,
All curtain the grief of even the hopeless.
And it appears that through the tempest
Moves a light caressing wind,
While the sea swells up with a roar,
Sometimes, like a battlefield it looks to me
The tempestuous sea,
Where the moon itself is a brilliant golden crown
Of a great king.
But even that moon is always beneath thee
Oh Master most high,
Oh forgive thou me
If even this master was frightened for a moment
Oh, noble moment, by art betrayed…
And how may one not delight in thee,
Oh thou young boy, but forgive thou me,
If I shall bend my white head
Before thy art divine
Thy bliss-wrought genius…”

J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker

Source: J.M.W. Turner

Secret, Dreams, Hope, Art

“We who are like senseless children shrink from suffering, but love its causes. We hurt ourselves; our pain is self-inflicted! Why should others be the object of our anger?”

Šantidéva (685–763) 8th-century Indian Buddhist monk and scholar

Love, Pain, Children, Suffering

“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Which, as they kiss, consume”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

Kiss

“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus; and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Source: Julius Caesar

Men, World

“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Beauty, Thinking, Past, Missing You

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926–2004) American psychiatrist

As quoted in The Leader's Digest : Timeless Principles for Team and Organization (2003) by Jim Clemmer, p. 84

People, Beauty, Light, Sun

“I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Pain, Feeling, Thinking, Personality

“I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]”

Green Day

“Dogs like everyone. Cats choose who to like.”

Lauren Myracle book Shine

Source: Shine

Dogs, Cats

“For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.”

Osamu Dazai book No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

People, Reading

“What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?”

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) Russian author primarily known for his novel "Master and Margarita"

Evil

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond; and must be polished, or the lustre of it will never appear. And ’tis manifest, that as the rational soul distinguishes us from brutes; so education carries on the distinction, and makes some less brutish than others.”

Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) English trader, writer and journalist

The Education of Women (1719)

Education, Soul, Appearance

“Some people are like Slinkies. They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.”

Patricia Briggs book Iron Kissed

Source: Iron Kissed

People, Smile

“Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Source: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Fools

“Harry Dresden: Took cover. In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.”

Jim Butcher Dead Beat

It's more heroic.
Source: The Dresden Files, Dead Beat (2005), Chapter 34

Business

“You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?"

"It's a distance that can't be measured."

"Like the distance that separates one person's heart from another's.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

Heart, Personality

“Trips to the dentist-I like to postpone that kind of thing.”

Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician

“Look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under it.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

Flowers

“I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions.”

Louis Sachar book Holes

Source: Holes

Stupidity, Question, Thinking

“The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together, for it implied — as had been said at Nuremberg over and over again by the defendants and their counsels — that this new type of criminal, who is in actual fact hostis generis humani, commits his crimes under circumstances that make it well-nigh impossible for him to know or to feel that he is doing wrong.”

Hannah Arendt book Eichmann in Jerusalem

Hannah Arendt in Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963) epilogue.
Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)

Feeling

“Being brokenhearted is like having broken ribs. On the outside it looks like nothing's wrong, but every breath hurts.”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Source: It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy

Hurt, Hurtful

“Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the first place.”

Tamora Pierce book Alanna: The First Adventure

Source: Alanna: The First Adventure

Confidence, Hurt

“A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Father's Day, For Father

“Medicine is a thankless profession. When you get paid by the rich, you feel like a flunky, by the poor like a thief. How can you take a fee from people who can’t afford to eat or go to the movies? Especially when they’re at their last gasp. It’s not easy. You let it ride. You get soft-hearted. And your ship goes down.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

People, Feeling, Heart

“SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE IN FATE, OTHERS DON’T. I DO, and I don’t. It may seem at times as if invisible fingers move us about like puppets on strings. But for sure, we are not born to be dragged along. We can grab the strings ourselves and adjust our course at every crossroad, or take off at any little trail into the unknown.”

Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002) Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer

Source: Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft

Fate, People, Time

“I’ll even let Heath help out,” he really
sounded like a pompous butt.

You’ll let me help out?” Heath snapped. “Your mom will let me
help out.”

Kristin Cast book Tempted

Source: Tempted

Moms, Help

“I can stand.”
“It looks to me like you‘re using a wall to prop you up. that’s not my definition of ‘standing.’”
“Its leaning,” Jace told him. “Leaning comes right before standing.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Dreams like a podcast,
Downloading truth in my ears.
They tell me cool stuff."
"Apollo?" I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad.
He put his finger to his lips. "I'm incognito. Call me Fred."
"A god named Fred?”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

God, Truth, Dreams

“I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

“Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one.
The pain is an anchor, mooring me”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Pain, Feeling

“Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.”

Tamora Pierce book Wild Magic

Source: Wild Magic

Understanding, Animals, Baby

“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

Source: The Collected Poems

Life, Death, Music, Dead

“I myself, from the very beginning,
Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium
Or a reflection in someone else's mirror,
Without flesh, without meaning, without a name.
Already I knew the list of crimes
That I was destined to commit.”

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet

Dreams

“People with yuan fen are destined to like one another;
Friendship develops even if a thousand miles apart.
But should yuan fen be absent between two individuals,
They will remain strangers despite sitting face-to-face”

Adeline Yen Mah book Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society

Source: Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society

Friendship, People

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Letter to Cassandra (1798-12-24) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
Source: Jane Austen's Letters

People, Funny

“Your true passion should feel like breathing; it’s that natural.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Feeling, Nature, Passion

“What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher

Remarks to John Wisdom, quoted in Zen and the Work of WIttgenstein by Paul Weinpaul in The Chicago Review Vol. 12, (1958), p. 70
Attributed from posthumous publications

“It's funny about love', Sophia said. 'The more you love someone, the less he likes you back.'
'That's very true,' Grandmother observed. 'And so what do you do?'
'You go on loving,' said Sophia threateningly. 'You love harder and harder.”

Tove Jansson book The Summer Book

Source: The Summer Book

Love

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Quoted by Alvin Redman in The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde http://books.google.com/books?id=qUjQAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Keep+love+in+your+heart+a+life+without+it+is+like+a+sunless+garden+when+the+flowers+are+dead+the+consciousness+of+loving+and+being+loved+brings+a+warmth+and+richness+to+life+that+nothing+else+can+bring%22&pg=PA102#v=onepage (1952)

Love, Life, Flowers, Heart

“The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable finality.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

“After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end.
- Saphira”

Christopher Paolini book Eragon

Source: Eragon

Dead

“I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

Love, Hate, Fear, Way

“What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?”

Arnold Schwarzenegger book Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

Source: Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Helen Keller: Her Socialist Years (1967)
Context: Some people do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions; and conclusions are not always pleasant. They are a thorn in the spirit. But I consider it a priceless gift and a deep responsibility to think.

People, Thinking

“The word love has become so devalued, we have to put words in front of it, like 'unconditional'.”

David Icke (1952) English writer and public speaker

Love

“Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

Love, Universe, Sun

“When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.”

Anna Pavlova (1881–1931) Russian ballet dancer

Happiness, Appearance, Success

“It came charging toward me, several hundred pounds of angry-looking monster, and I did the only thing any reasonable wizard could have done.
I turned around and ran like hell.”

Jim Butcher book Death Masks

Source: Death Masks

Hell

“Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?”

Tamora Pierce In the Hand of the Goddess

Source: In the Hand of the Goddess

Girl, Boy

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

Friendship, Relationship, For Friend, For Bestfriend

“And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

People, World, Way, Heart

“Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.”

Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician

“A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.”

George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist

“He's not here."
"Not here like he just popped around the corner to the bodega for a six-pack of Diet Coke and a box of Krispy Kremes, or not here like…”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Box

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

Books

“Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.”

Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer

Faith, Reality

“There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to meet the girl of my dreams, Tragedy.' These days, Trajedi.”

George Carlin book Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

Women, Faith, Dreams, Hope

“Ishabal: "If you may correct your vision as you like, why do you wear spectacles?"
Tris: "Because I like them. Because I have better things to do with my magic than fixing my vision when ordinary glass will do.”

Tamora Pierce book The Will of the Empress

Source: The Will of the Empress

“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

Love, Friendship, Light, Heart

“What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.”

Marjorie Holmes (1910–2002) American columnist and best-selling Christian author

Feeling

“I’m to attend balls and banquets without my squire?" demanded Raoul, all innocence. "I can't handle things like requesting water to shave with, or getting my clothes pressed. I need Kel.”

Tamora Pierce Squire

Source: Squire

Water, Clothes

“How strange! This bed on which I shall lie has been slept on by more than one dying man, but today it does not repel me! Who knows what corpses have lain on it and for how long? But is a corpse any worse than I? A corpse too knows nothing of its father, mother or sisters or Titus. Nor has a corpse a sweetheart. A corpse, too, is pale, like me. A corpse is cold, just as I am cold and indifferent to everything. A corpse has ceased to live, and I too have had enough of life…. Why do we live on through this wretched life which only devours us and serves to turn us into corpses? The clocks in the Stuttgart belfries strike the midnight hour. Oh how many people have become corpses at this moment! Mothers have been torn from their children, children from their mothers - how many plans have come to nothing, how much sorrow has sprung from these depths, and how much relief!… Virtue and vice have come in the end to the same thing! It seems that to die is man's finest action - and what might be his worst? To be born, since that is the exact opposite of his best deed. It is therefore right of me to be angry that I was ever born into this world! Why was I not prevented from remaining in a world where I am utterly useless? What good can my existence bring to anyone? … But wait, wait! What's this? Tears? How long it is since they flowed! How is this, seeing that an arid melancholy has held me for so long in its grip? How good it feels - and sorrowful. Sad but kindly tears! What a strange emotion! Sad but blessed. It is not good for one to be sad, and yet how pleasant it is - a strange state…”

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) Polish composer

Stuttgart. After 8th September 1831.
Source: "Selected Correspondence Of Fryderyk Chopin"; http://archive.org/stream/selectedcorrespo002644mbp/selectedcorrespo002644mbp_djvu.txt

Life, Children, People, Lie

“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Part Two, Ch. 4
On the Road (1957)

Star, Night

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one… just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Quoted, The Great Gatsby (1925)

People, World, Feeling, Father's Day

“You are like nobody since I love you.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Love

“She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

Youth, World, Smile

“I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.”

Franz Kafka book Letters to Milena

Source: Letters to Milena

Feeling, Thinking

“It s funny to see a hatchling like you beaten by the old one.”

Christopher Paolini book Eragon

Source: Eragon

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

Men, Books, Reading, Past

“Literature is open to everybody. I refuse to allow you, Beadle though you are, to turn me off the grass. Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt, that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own

Source: A Room of One's Own

Literature, Freedom, Grass

“The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”

Chinua Achebe book Arrow of God

Arrow of God (1988)

World, Dance

“That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Americanah

Source: Americanah

Housing

“Nico's voice was like broken glass. "I- I wasn't in love with Annabeth."

"You were jealous of her," Jason said. "That's why you didn't want to be around her. Especially why you don't want to be around… him. It makes total sense.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Love, Sense

“People never like me and I never like people”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

People

“If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly and understand the subtleties of all the arts and sciences as well as sons.”

Christine de Pizan book The Book of the City of Ladies

Si la coustume estoit de mettre les petites filles a l'escole, et que communement on les fist apprendre les sciences comme on fait aux filz, qu'elles apprendroient aussi parfaitement et entenderoient les subtilités de toutes les arz et sciences comme ils font.
Part I, ch. 27, p. 63.
Le Livre de la Cité des Dames (c. 1405)
Source: The Book of the City of Ladies

School, Art, Understanding, Nature

“Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.”

Michael Crichton book Jurassic Park

Source: Jurassic Park

Truth

“All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you - just because I am.”

Diana Gabaldon book A Breath of Snow and Ashes

Source: A Breath of Snow and Ashes

Love

“Now I see that I will never find the light
Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel,
Consuming myself.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

Light

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Smile, Light, Night, Happy

“The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.”

Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) austrian economist

Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science

Hate, Envy

“Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

Money, People, Funny

“I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don't ask me who I am.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise.”

H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author

Fear

“I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.”

David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor

Source: Lost Highway

Way

“He is a great person, as well as a great musician. And this guy sings like he was born down below Mississippi!”

Eric Clapton (1945) English musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist

B.B. King http://www1.gitarrebass.de/magazine/0008/top10.htm <br class="br">About

Guy, Singing, Personality

“Goethe as an old man: he was so very punctual. At that time he also wrote many things that were very punctual. The rounded thing is boring. Turn it as you may, it remains round and pretty.
I love the edges, the sharp lines, and fractures.
I show to him a picture of Dostoevsky. How ruptured, furrowed, tormented!
He looks like Michelangelo; the face of an endurer and a prophet.”

Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister

Der alte Goethe: er war so pünktlich. Er schrieb damals auch vieles, was sehr pünktlich war. Das Runde ist langweilig. Dreh es wie du willst, es bleibt rund und schön.
Ich liebe Ecken, Kanten und Risse.
Ich lege ihm ein Bild von Dostojewski vor. Wie zerrissen, wie zerfurcht und zerhauen!
So sieht auch Michelangelo aus; ein Dulder- und Prophetengesicht.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)

Love, Time

“I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak and act like a human being, I kept my solitary agonies locked in my breast. I kept my melancholy and my agitation hidden, careful lest any trace should be left exposed. I feigned an innocent optimism; I gradually perfected myself in the role of the farcical eccentric.”

Osamu Dazai book No Longer Human

The First Notebook
No Longer Human

Feeling, Confidence, Optimism, Perfection

“(on way to relax) “I just like to lock my self in a small room and listen to music and watch films all day!””

Daniel Radcliffe (1989) English actor

http://dan-radcliffe.net/index.php/information/facts-favorites/

Music, Way

“I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there…”

William Golding book Pincher Martin

Source: Pincher Martin (1956), p. 190, as cited in [The World and the Book: A Study of Modern Fiction, Josipovici, Gabriel, w:Gabriel Josipovici, Stanford University Press, London, 0-8047-0797-9, 243, http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LTSsAAAAIAAJ]

World, Nature

“She rings like a bell through the night
And wouldn't you love to love her?”

Stevie Nicks (1948) American singer and songwriter, member of Fleetwood Mac

Rhiannon
Fleetwood Mac (1976)

Love, Night

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