Famous quotes

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

Juana de Ibarbourou

Juana de Ibarbourou

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Because no tear ever rescues the world that is lost or the dream that fades away.

Eugene Ionesco

Eugene Ionesco

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The freedom of fantasy is not an escape to unreality; it is creation and daring.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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A smart man is someone who knows how to be smart enough to hire people smarter than him.

Sören Aabye Kierkegaard

Sören Aabye Kierkegaard

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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

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It is tough to fall, but it is worse never to have tried to climb.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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I have always believed that the good was nothing but the beautiful put into action.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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Things go wrong if they lack the touch of human skin.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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Hope, only hope, nothing else, you reach a point where there is nothing but hope, and then we discover that we still have everything.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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What will be, will be. I know that philosophy. They often call it predestination, fatalism, fate, but what it really means is that you will do as you damn well please, as always.

Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre

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Happiness is not doing what one wants but wanting what one does.