Dilsad Elebi Quotes

#1. Each hour is a room of shame, and I am
swimming, swimming, holding my head up,
smiling, joking, ashamed, ashamed,
like being naked with the clothed, or being
a child, having to try to behave
while hating the terms of your life.

Sharon Olds

#2. If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be messed-up.

Mitch Hedberg

#3. As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

Cleveland Amory

#4. I thought of beauty as of a constant effort to eliminate corporeality. I wanted him to love my body forgetful of what one knows of bodies. Beauty, I thought anxiously, is this forgetfulness.

Elena Ferrante

#5. Some women cry easily. The tears fall as gently as fragrant raindrops in a sun-shower, and leave the face clear and clean and almost radiant. Other women cry hard, and all the loveliness in them collapses in the agony of it.

Gregory David Roberts

#6. Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to your friends, which you may not have been back when you were clever.

Garrison Keillor

#7. Do not engage to find things as you think they are.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. You're an ass," I spat, picking up the shirt.
He chuckled. "And it's a fine ass, I'm told.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#9. I'll call for pen and ink and write my mind

William Shakespeare

#10. You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders

Woodrow Wilson

#11. I know people might think I'm strong or tough, but I'm really not. I'm a sheep in wolf's clothing.

James Frey

#12. All my life I've lived a beautiful lie. The governor's son with the bright future set for him. The middle child. The one who no one knew how bad he was suffering until it made the nightly news.

Magan Vernon

#13. The way I see it, if people truly love my music, they will support me in some way down the road.

Talib Kweli