Alexander Blok Quotes

#1. I once stirred thunder in the skies, And now, unlike the days of yore - Just tears in a drunken poet's eyes And laughter - from some whore.

Alexander Blok

#2. The brain is not an organ to be relied upon.

Alexander Blok

#3. Anyone who can go through Hyde Park on a summer's evening and not feel moved by it is probably going through in an ambulance with the sheet pulled over their face.

Douglas Adams

#4. It's easy to blame traffic jam
when you're late and in a hurry.

Toba Beta

#5. Poor land, poor land, what do you mean
to the heart that moves in me?
Poor love, poor love, poor wife of mine,
why do you weep so bitterly?

(from Retribution book 2, I)

Alexander Blok

#6. It's great to write for actors when you know who they are. I think I prefer it.

Jason Gann

#7. stars, Where did such anguish come from?" And the stars tell him, The stars tell him everything.

Alexander Blok

#8. She wasn't trying to overcome life, only to get along with it, to blend with the processes she could scarcely understand in a world that had permitted her no solid ground.

Jim Harrison

#9. The sinking of the Titanic has made me indescribably happy; there is, after all, an ocean.

Alexander Blok

#10. To Jaden, Kenneth, Stanley, Pedro, Tyler, Edwin, Samuel, Taishan, Gerry and Justin. For who you were and who you might have been.

Gary Younge

#11. My unrestrained commitment of myself to God gives the Holy Spirit the opportunity to grant to me the holiness of Jesus Christ.

Oswald Chambers

#12. With your whole body, with your whole heart, with your whole conscience, listen to the Revolution ... This is the music everyone who has ears should hear.

Alexander Blok

#13. The squeak of oarlocks comes over the lake water

A woman's shriek assaults the ear

While above, in the sky, inured to everything,

The moon looks on with a mindless leer

("The Unknown Lady")

Alexander Blok

#14. Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!

Alexander Blok

#15. Inside my soul a treasure is buried.

The key is mine and only mine.

How right you are, you drunken monster!

I know: the truth is in the wine.

("The Unknown Lady")

Alexander Blok

#16. The bourgeois stands like a question mark,
Speechless, like the hungry cur,
The ancient world stands there behind him,
A mongrel dog, afraid to stir.

Alexander Blok

#17. Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.

Jeffrey Archer

#18. What message, years of conflagration, have you: madness or hope? On thin cheeks strained by war and liberation bloody reflections still remain.

Alexander Blok

#19. The mirror's light sparks in the eyes,

And horrified, my lids drawn tight,

I step back to that realm of night

Where not a single exit lies...

(Untitled: "I pass away this life of mine...")

Alexander Blok

#20. In Seattle there is a constant hope for a period called "two days in a row when it doesn't fucking rain.

Drew Hayes

#21. Eating is one of my favorite parts of the day

Jennifer Lawrence

#22. You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling from your own unconsciousness, from your own past. Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy.

Osho

#23. All the quips in the world couldn't prevent Oscar Wilde from becoming a lovesick fool.

David Levithan

#24. There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.

Hafez

#25. He himself feels happier at this moment than he remembers he ever did in his life. The woman in front of him, who loves everything with or without a good reason, seems happy, too.

Yiyun Li

#26. I'm not unattractive, but I'm not a matinee idol. I think I have a very non-threatening look - I'm fine, I'm right in the middle.

Steve Carell

#27. How often we sit weeping - you
and I - over the life we lead!
My friends, if you only knew
the darknes of the days ahead!

Alexander Blok