Quotes · Skopia

28 quotes

1899

★ 1.3

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne

The House at Pooh Corner · 1928

★ 1.9

Magazine

Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

Iris Murdoch

1959

★ 1.9

I remember after my grandfather's death, seeing Dad in the hall with tears streaming down his face. I don't think I had ever seen him cry before. I'm glad I did see him. It helped me know that it was okay for men to cry. Many years later, when my father himself died, I cried; and way down deep I knew he would have said it was alright.

Fred Rogers

2003

★ 1.9

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Romantic comedy

I feel naked. I feel like everybody's staring at me!

Joe (Some Like it Hot)

Some Like it Hot · 1959

★ 2.0

Film · Psychological drama (film) · Drama (film) · Psychological drama · Drama

He pushes people away before they have a chance to leave him. It's a defense mechanism, alright, and for 20 years he's been alone because of that.

Sean

Good Will Hunting · 1997

★ 2.0

Interview

Make sure to allow people to take care of you.

Mickalene Thomas

2014

★ 2.0

Film · Coming of age (film) · Drama (film) · Coming of age · Drama

Let your head rest in my hand. Relax. I got you. I promise. I'm not going to let you go. Hey man, I got you. There you go.

Juan

Moonlight · 2016

★ 2.0

Novel

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Charles Dickens

Our Mutual Friend · 1865

★ 2.1

Play · Tragedy (play)

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

Othello · 1604

★ 3.5

Film · Fantasy (film) · Musical (film) · Fantasy · Musical

As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don't know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz · 1939

★ 3.5

Film · Western (film) · Western

You're fast with that gun, Matt. Awful fast. But your heart's soft. Too soft. Might get you hurt some day.

Cherry Valance

Red River · 1948

★ 3.5

Poem

Are all men in disguise except those crying?

Dannie Abse

1986

★ 3.5

Poem

Who has not sat nervously before the stage curtain of his heart?

Rainer Maria Rilke

1923

★ 3.6

Film · Psychological drama (film) · Drama (film) · Psychological drama · Drama

You don't know about real loss 'cause that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much.

Sean

Good Will Hunting · 1997

★ 3.6

Film · Christmas (film) · Romantic comedy (film) · Christmas · Romantic comedy

Let's get the shit kicked out of us by love!

Sam (Love Actually)

Love Actually · 2003

★ 3.6

Novel

No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still some things you can’t reveal.

Haruki Murakami

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage · 2013

★ 3.6

Song · Folk rock

She talks just like a woman, yes, she does She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does And she aches just like a woman But she breaks just like a little girl.

Bob Dylan

Just Like a Woman · 1966

★ 3.7

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

Desmond Tutu

2004

★ 3.7

Novel · Coming of age story

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces,—and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper,—love her, love her, love her!

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations · 1861

★ 3.8

Novel · Post-colonial literature

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.

Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things · 1997

★ 3.8

Philosophical literature

If you expect a physician to help you, you must lay bare your wound.

Boethius

The Consolation of Philosophy · 523

★ 3.9

Novel · Fantasy

I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King · 1955

★ 3.9

Novel

I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts?

Rebecca Wells

The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood · 1996

★ 4.4

Poem

The inward gates of a bird are always open. It does not know how to shut them. That is the secret of its song, But whether any man's are ajar is doubtful.

Hugh MacDiarmid

1934

★ 5.0

Novel · Spy novel · Spy

We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, this hardness; but we aren't like that really. I mean... One can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold... Do you see what I mean?

John le Carre

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold · 1963

★ 5.2

Novel

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

Louise Erdrich

The Painted Drum · 2005

★ 6.8

Philosophical literature

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Theodor Adorno

Minima Moralia · 1951

★ 6.9

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