Vertelde Quotes

#1. If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

Franz Kafka

#2. Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.

Gautama Buddha

#3. It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one.

Celia Green

#4. I do not doubt he has a low opinion of women too. Gallantry is often a cloak for contempt.

Elizabeth Peters

#5. It is not enough to simply "do your best". You must strive for perfection.

Subir Chowdhury

#6. This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.

Dylan Thomas

#7. I'll let no man in, unless of course, he knocks.
Walk right in to my heart with a thousand locks.

Casey Renee Kiser

#8. I used to wonder why it would hold on," Sebastian says at last, "why it would cause such suffering.

Menna Van Praag

#9. Humans are predators, not prey. Always remember that.

Dia Reeves