1904 · Skopia

Showing 21 quotes from 1904

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

1904

★ 7.0

Personal journal

But perhaps the universe is suspended on the tooth of some monster.

1904

★ 6.2

Personal journal

Everyone has something to hide.

1904

★ 5.4

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

Peter Pan · 1904

★ 5.3

Personal journal

Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.

1904

★ 3.8

Personal journal

An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

1904

★ 3.8

Personal journal

There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.

1904

★ 3.7

Personal journal

Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

1904

★ 3.7

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

The Belle of Bowling Green · 1904

★ 3.6

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

G.K. Chesterton

The Man who was Thursday: A Nightmare · 1904

★ 3.6

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us... We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

1904

★ 3.5

Novel · Coming of age story

Love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

Peter Camenzind · 1904

★ 3.5

Every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies," there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

Peter Pan · 1904

★ 3.5

Scientific literature

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.

1904

★ 3.5

If a lot of cures are suggested for a disease, it means that the disease is incurable.

1904

★ 1.9

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.

Joseph Pulitzer

1904

★ 1.9

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

1904

★ 1.9

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

1904

★ 1.9

"If you believe," he shouted to them, "clap your hands; don't let Tink die."

Peter Pan · 1904

★ 1.9

Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be in the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own species.

1904

★ 1.8

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