Tucholke Privat Quotes & Sayings

The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea. — Andrew Weil

I have such an admiration for John [Lennon], like most people.
But to be the guy who wrote with him, well that's enough. Right
there you could retire and go, 'Jesus I had a fantastic life. Take me, Lord.' — Paul McCartney

Those ruffians, the Gods, shan't have it all their own way,
her notion being that the Gods, who never lost a chance of hurting, thwarting and spoiling human lives were seriously put out if, all the same, you behaved like a lady. — Virginia Woolf

If you decide you don't have to get A's, you can learn an enormous amount in college. — Isidor Isaac Rabi

Now he is certainly sailing above, he on whom my wishes hang, and in whose hand I should like to lay my life's happiness. I will dare everything to win him and an immortal soul. — Hans Christian Andersen

The best of men are men at best — J.C. Ryle

If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people. — Leo Tolstoy

I was there in your forgetting, until I was forgot. — Lang Leav

You can be a pharaoh. Like, a pharaoh means, that which you will become. — Jaden Smith

Doeg, though without knowing how or why,
Made still a blundering kind of melody;
Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin,
Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in;
Free from all meaning whether good or bad,
And in one word, heroically mad. — John Dryden

Even so, I'm somebody.
I'm the Discoverer of Nature.
I'm the Argonaut of true sensations.
I bring a new Universe to the Universe
Because I bring the Universe to itself. — Alberto Caeiro

I was so thin, I had to run around in the shower to get wet. That kind of thin. — Kurt Fuller

Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch. — Ray Bradbury

There is a power in the land in Concord, in Lincoln, in the western Boston suburbs. There's an inter-dimensional vortex that opens in a variety of places in this area, which leads one to a transcendental reality. — Frederick Lenz