Eberhardt Quotes

#1. Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr. Eberhardt had said, 'but sometimes there's a fine line between courage and stupidity.

Carl Hiaasen

#2. Jutta, he thinks, I finally listened.

Anthony Doerr

#3. A lot of people say about 'Gossip Girl,' 'Well, how do you feel about gossip?' Well, who really likes gossip? No one likes to be talked about if it's not flattering or a compliment.

Jessica Szohr

#4. There's no reason to be offended if someone is being honest and tactful. To tell the truth in kindness is a huge favor. To help people avoid the wrong path, or get on the right one, can save them years of frustration. In the end, candor grows respect.

Nancy K. Eberhardt

#5. You hear that, heart? We're even now.

Colleen Hoover

#6. I study life by being close to it, this "native life" about which so little is known, and which is so disfigured by the descriptions of those who, not knowing it, insist on describing it anyway.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#7. It's not a question of money anymore. I spend money like it's nothing. You know, I could be penniless tomorrow, but I'd get back, somehow.

Freddie Mercury

#8. One must use the weapons one finds in one's path.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#9. Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment, and undermine security. The visit of an invader is necessarily rare, but domestic animosities allow no cessation.

Samuel Johnson

#10. Oh if at every moment of our lives we could know the consequences of some of the utterings, thoughts and deeds that seem so trivial and unimportant at the time! And should we not conclude from such examples that there is no such thing in life as unimportant moments devoid of meaning for the future?

Isabelle Eberhardt

#11. Containing several hundred languages, among them several world languages, the Indo-European language family is the language family with the most speakers world-wide.

Soren Eberhardt

#12. I feel alone, free, and detached from everything in the world, and I'm happy.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#13. One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#14. I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#15. CASTLES IN THE AIR Laurie

Louisa May Alcott

#16. No prayers, no medicines, merely the ineffable happiness of dying.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#17. I am full of the sorrow that goes with changes in surroundings, those successive stages of annihilation that slowly lead to the great and final void.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#18. While to live in the past and think of what was good and beautiful about it amounts to a sort of seasoning of the present, the perennial wait for tomorrow is bound to result in chronic discontent that poisons one's entire outlook.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#19. Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#20. I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#21. Life on the open road is liberty ... to be alone, to have few needs, to be unknown, everywhere a foreigner and at home, and to walk grandly and solitarily in conquest of the world.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#22. Death does not frighten me, but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#23. I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.

Adam Lambert

#24. We are, all of us, poor wretches, and those who prefer not to understand this are even worse off than the rest of us.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#25. For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#26. Women loved that part 'cause K.C. was just sassy.

Marg Helgenberger

#27. From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#28. Crime, particularly among the poor and downtrodden, is often a last gesture of liberty.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#29. The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#30. I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual which cannot be taken by a rational being to be capable of explanation by imposture, coincidence, or mistake.

Augustus De Morgan

#31. The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#32. To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#33. For now it seems that by advancing into unknown territories, I entered into my life

Isabelle Eberhardt

#34. The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#35. A nomad I will remain for life,
in love with distant and uncharted places.

Isabelle Eberhardt