The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
-Oscar Wilde, ‘Picture of Dorian Gray’
Kategori: Citat
Gennem et prisme, som er mig
One would expect people to remember the past and to imagine the future. But in fact, when discoursing or writing about history, they imagine it in terms of their own experience, and when trying to gauge the future they cite supposed analogies from the past: til, by a double process of repetition, they imagine the past and remember the future.
– Sir Lewis Namier, 1942
Kold krig – borgerkrig
I have said for years that I felt like we were in a cold civil war, and all of a sudden, it is not so cold anymore.
Dan Carlin, Common Sense with Dan Carlin: Garbage in, Garbage out
Gengæld
An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
-Kahlil Gibran
Jeg ser i dig –
Treat a man as he is,
and he will remain as he is.
Treat a man as he could be,
and he will become what he should be.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soft touch
Yes yes yes I do like you. I am afraid to write the stronger word.
– Virginia Woolf, The letters of Virginia Woolf, vol. 3
Vreden i skønheden
Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.
– Charles Bukowski
Mildhed
Have a heart that never hardens,
a temper that never tires,
and a touch that never hurts.
– Charles Dickens
Bare én
Taking Time
I need a day of nothing, a reprieve from the frenetic whirlwind of my life.
Shrug it off like an old winter coat, and hang it by the door.
I need a day where I am not asked, wanted, or noticed. To know there is a wall of silence between me and everything else.
-Lang Leav
På vej
Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere on water and land.
– Walt Whitman