Hipster Aesthetic Quotes

#1. Guernsey itself was overcrowded, but its cliffs were utterly empty. I spent a wonderful year with a friend, climbing them. It was sheer magic: you went from this pretty, busy village of an island to the sea cliffs and heard nothing but the gulls and the waves.

Simon Mawer

#2. When diamonds boast that they can't be crushed, let 'em go, 'cause dreams don't turn to dust.

Owl City

#3. Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.

Vince Lombardi

#4. After briefly considering whether to study biology or medicine, I opted for medicine and initiated my studies at the University of Bonn. The first two years were particularly hard, since I simultaneously decided to attend lectures and courses in biology as well.

Harald Zur Hausen

#5. Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.

Anne Rice

#6. Ralph Waldo Emerson is believed to have said, "Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

Will Bowen

#7. We are leaving the industrial economy and entering the connection economy.

Seth Godin

#8. To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only a temporary illusion, a way station on the way to the higher "reality" of long, warm, pleasant summers. But summer, it turned out, was no more real than the snow that melted in wintertime.

David Guterson

#9. If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us.
The Content of the Psychoses

C. G. Jung

#10. Get thee to the novel! - the novel, that word-woven submarine, piloted by intimation and intuition, that will dive you to the deeps of the heart's maelstrom.

Cynthia Ozick