Quotes - Zuzana (thequeenofthorns) (Plzeň, Czech Republic) Showing 1-30 of 40

#1

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

#2

“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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#3

“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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#4

“A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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#5

“When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

tags: hannibal, murder

552 likes

#6

“Nothing made me happen. I happened.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

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#7

“The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

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#8

“Are you looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal Rising

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#9

“I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

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#10

“If I saw you everyday forever, I would remember this time.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

tags: hannibal-lecter

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#11

“There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable.”
― Dante Alighieri

tags: dante, italian-medieval-poetry, nostalgia, à-la-recherche-du-temps-perdu

1227 likes

#12

“The path to paradise begins in hell.”
― Dante Alighieri

tags: heaven, hell, paradise

1193 likes

#13

“The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

tags: inferno-canto-vi-105

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#14

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

71484 likes

#15

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

25502 likes

#16

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: truth

17324 likes

#17

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion

14640 likes

#18

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: sin

10795 likes

#19

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: saint-sinner

8884 likes

#20

“Hearts are made to be broken.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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#21

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: creation, god, humor, man

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#22

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

5782 likes

#23

“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: temptation

4246 likes

#24

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde

5918 likes

#25

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor, taste