Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Georges Duhamel

Georges Duhamel

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Sympathy, an animal passion, is also a selfish passion. But it remains our best opportunity to escape from selfishness.

Georges Duhamel

Georges Duhamel

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When you read a book with a certain state of mind, you only find interpretations of that state.

Alexandre Dumas (fils)

Alexandre Dumas (fils)

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We must love, no matter who, no matter how, as long as we love.

Aeschylus of Eleusis

Aeschylus of Eleusis

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Not even sitting by the fire in his home can man escape the sentence of his destiny.

Fernando Fernán Gomez

Fernando Fernán Gomez

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Six, eight million viewers. These are figures that no theater director or novelist could ever dream of, let alone Aeschylus, Sophocles, or Euripides.

Federico García Lorca

Federico García Lorca

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Nothing disturbs the past centuries. We cannot elicit a sigh from the old.

Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran

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To understand the heart and mind of a person, don't look at what they have done, don't look at what they have achieved, but rather at what they aspire to do.

André Gide

André Gide

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There are very few monsters that guarantee the fears we have of them.

Sacha Guitry

Sacha Guitry

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Nothing distracts me, nothing amuses me. And what doesn't excite me, bores me.

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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When a child destroys his toy, it seems like he is searching for its soul.

Edmund Husserl

Edmund Husserl

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The realm of truth is objectively divided into different spheres. It is not within our discretion to determine the manner and point of demarcation between the spheres of truth.