Daily Quote Archives

“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”

“We all have our time machines. Some take us back; they‘re called memories. Some take us forward; they’re called dreams.”

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”

“Devote today to something so daring even you can‘t believe you’re doing it.”

“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.”

“Develop an interest in life as you see it. The people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”

“The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.”

“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.”

“The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.”

“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”

“Life‘s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.”

“To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.”

“Only a life lived for others is worth living.”

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one!’”

“What is uttered from the heart alone will win the hearts of others to your own.”

“A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.”

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition.”

“Dream as if you‘ll live forever; live as if you’ll die today.”

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”