C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises.”
“Charlie Huston, who showran the first season [of Powers], is a novelist, and likes to internalize fiction as a novelist does.”
“CHARLIE II
(METAMORPHIC VERSION)
Ia muncul bukan dari layar,
melainkan dari sela-sela gelap
di antara kedipan mata kita—
tempat pikiran gagal memutuskan
siapa sedang menatap siapa.
Tubuh kecil itu kembali,
bukan sebagai gelandangan komikal,
melainkan sebagai pertapa abstrak
yang menertawakan seluruh peradaban
tanpa membuka bibir.
Setiap langkahnya
adalah mantra yang salah dieja,
menggoyang panggung dengan gerak paling canggung;
jatuh-bangun yang kita sebut komedi,
padahal itu adalah cara semesta
menunjukkan betapa rapuhnya kita:
para penonton yang ingin percaya
hidup adalah aliran peristiwa
yang patut dirayakan
layaknya pesta.
Ia tidak sedang berjalan.
Ia sedang menghapus ingatan
sedikit demi sedikit—perlahan-lahan
seperti seluloid yang terbakar oleh cahaya proyektor
dari dunia yang centang-perentang.
Dalam keheningan hitam-putih itu,
kitalah yang menjadi pantomim:
komik yang berbicara tanpa suara,
mengerti tanpa pemahaman,
tertawa tanpa tahu
siapa yang sedang
ditertawakan.
Charlie,
atau siapapun ia telah menjelma,
telah melampaui nama;
ia menjadi ruang kosong
yang memantulkan wajah
cermin kotor yang menunggu
kita terpeleset dusta
topeng mana yang kita kenakan?
kedunguan apa yang kita perankan?
Ia tak memanggil kita.
Ia mengintai kita.
Ia tahu betapa seriusnya
kita menjalani hidup,
betapa tragisnya kesungguhan itu,
betapa bodohnya kesedihan
yang mengira dirinya istimewa.
Tongkat kecilnya bukan properti panggung—
itu garis batas antara imajinasi
dan kenyataan
yang ingin kita sembunyikan
dan yang ingin dunia telanjangi.
Setiap putaran adalah meditasi destruktif:
sebuah zen yang retak,
sebuah pencerahan yang salah arah,
sebuah humor yang menusuk jantung
sampai kita lupa apakah kita sedang menangis atau tertawa.
Di titik ini,
tidak ada lagi komedi,
hanya ironi.
Bukan ia yang tampil untuk kita.
Kita yang tampil untuknya.
Kitalah karakter minor,
figuran tak penting
yang sedang terpampang di layar
yang terus berputar bahkan setelah bioskop tutup.
Kita menyaksikan ia menghilang,
padahal yang raib sebenarnya
adalah ilusi
tentang diri kita sendiri:
nama, peran, luka-luka yang kita pelihara,
semua runtuh dalam irama
yang tak pernah ia mainkan,
tetapi selalu kita dengar
dalam kebisuan.
Ketika layar akhirnya memudar,
kita mengira ia telah pergi—
padahal ego yang tersisa
sebagai jejak bayangan
dalam dunia yang sejak awal
menonton kita
dengan keheningan yang lebih tajam
daripada sayatan pisau.
Tirai menutup.
Namun kesadaran tinggal
menggantung di udara
seperti debu perak seluloid:
kering, dingin, tak bernama—
persis seperti apa yang kita cari
dan takutkan selama ini.
2022 - 2025”
“Charlie is one of the big good guys in my universe.”
“CHARLIE IV
(PARODY OF THE GREAT MACHINE)
Di layar yang nyaris beku,
Charlie muncul kembali—
sebagai boneka kayu
tersesat di antara deretan server
yang mendengus
seperti kawanan sapi
menunggu disembelih.
Ia menari,
di atas platform data center.
Dalam himpitan dingin yang lebih biadab dari salju Siberia.
Langkah serupa bunyi retakan kecil—
bisikan samar,
seperti suara nadi manusia
mencoba mengingat
bahwa ia dulu pernah bernyawa.
Di sebelahnya, mesin-mesin memandang
gerak tubuh dengan mata merah yang seolah marah;
mereka tidak tertawa,
tidak menangis,
tidak peduli apakah Charlie hendak menyeberang jurang
atau sekadar mencari sisa makna
dari hidupnya.
Ia mengangkat tongkat.
Mesin menganggap itu sebagai perintah.
Seluruh kota listrik bergetar.
Lampu-lampu kejang seperti iman sekarat dan nyaris mati.
Matahari yang kehilangan alasan untuk bangun besok pagi.
Charlie terguling ke tanah,
menertawakan tubuhnya sendiri
yang rapuh,
dan untuk pertama kali
ia tampak seperti orang yang benar-benar mengerti
bahwa tragedi terbesar manusia bukanlah penderitaan—
melainkan ketika rasa sakit kita
diabaikan oleh entitas yang tidak mampu membedakan
manusia dari kucing digital
yang gagal di-render.
Dan dalam gelap itu,
ia menangis sejadi-jadinya
dalam mulut yang tetap membisu:
“Beginilah kiranya bila dunia menyerahkan martabatnya
kepada mesin yang tak bisa
merasa takut.”
Lalu ia menghilang,
seperti tab yang ditutup
tanpa sengaja.
November 2025”
“Charlie kisses like no one I’ve ever been with. Like someone who takes the time to figure out how things work.”
Source: Book Lovers
“Charlie looks away first. He rubs the side of his jaw. “You’re right. I don’t know why it’s so hard for me to accept this can’t be anything.”
Source: Book Lovers
“Charlie Marlowe never wrote horror, but somehow horror was writing Charlie Marlowe.”
Source: Out of The Easy
“Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere!”
“Charlie Parker stuck out in my mind.”
“Charlie Parker was the greatest individual musician that ever lived. Every instrument in the band tried to copy Charlie Parker, and in the history of jazz there had never been one man who influenced all the instruments.”
Source: Celebrating Bird: the triumph of Charlie Parker
“Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.”
“Charlie picked up his Spectral Sour, and tipped its cherry back into his mouth.
He chewed. Tasted. Licked his lip.
And Anna blipped back into existence, her face streaked with phosphorescent tears, like someone had broken a glow stick. She looked surprised to be there.
"Charlie?" she whispered.
"How did you know?" he asked, voice reverberating with pain. "How'd you know I was really going to do it? I didn't even know."
"I know you like a book, babe."
"You always did." He nodded, sniffing. "Guess it's time for a new chapter."
They gazed at one another with the electric intensity of an imminent goodbye.
"Have an incredible life, Charlie. And when you're done, find me in the next one, okay?"
She pressed her radiant mouth to his, fighting all the boundaries between them, time and space and life and death, to try to make him feel her there, the ghost of their love story, its arc complete.”
Source: Aftertaste
“Charlie put his hand on my shoulder and smiled. ‘You’re a rum bastard, Paddy.’ ‘Them,’ said I, ‘are the truest words you ever said.’
We walked over some more sand heaps and, at last, 538 Jones stood on the top, looking down at the sea, as if he’d made it himself.
We stood beside him and looked down at the sun on the water. ‘Me life on you, Jonesy,’ said I. ‘You’re like Stout Cortez when with eagle eyes, he stared at the Pacific—and all his men looked at each other with a wild surmise, silent, upon a peak in Darien. By Jasus, this equals any fughing Darien.”
“Charlie Rhodes: la persona che ero stato troppo giovane per apprezzare, troppo distratto per tenermi stretto, ma troppo innamorato per riuscire a dimenticare.”
Source: More Than Everything
“Charlie Rose is the ultimate ad.”
“Charlie Rose is too much of a ladies' man for my liking. He thinks a lot of himself with his bluer-than-blue eyes and charming smile. I'm sure in his day he's enchanted more women than we have horses."
Nell gave the mare a quick hug and kissed her neck. "Sorry again, Georgia." With a lighthearted chuckle, she stepped through the gate.
And came face-to-face with Charlie.”
Source: West Winds of Wyoming
“Charlie said your friend’s disappeared,” chirped Wendy.
“No, he hasn’t.” Adam denied it. “He’s in the house. Now, look, what’s all this you’ve been telling them?”
“Nothing, I haven’t told them anything.” Charlie looked drunk.
“He said you’ve turned your friend into a crayfish,” insisted Wendy.
“He’s always making little jokes like that, and you fell for it. How am I supposed to do that, for heaven’s sake?” Adam was angry.
“With your little book you found. What’s that under your arm?”
Source: Get Rich or Get Lucky
“Charlie scratched inside his left ear. Everybody. The first war in history where everybody won. I can't figure it. So long." He went on up the sidewalk, crossed the front yard, opened the door of his house, waved, and was gone.
"There goes Charlie," said Douglas.”
Source: Farewell Summer
“Charlie Sheen called his boss on 'Two and a Half Men' a 'Jew ki**' and expected to go back to work. That’s crazy. If you could do that and keep your job, then everybody would do it.”
“Charlie Sheen has the potential to cause your soul to weep and forfeit”
“Charlie Sheen is to stand-up what Larry Flynt is to standing up.”
“Charlie Sheen is who again? Denise is engaged?”
“Charlie squinted in the glare of the sun. “Are you a member of the crew?” He stepped forward and shaded his eyes.
“In a manner of speaking,” the man replied. “I’m Rock Harding.”
“Oh, nice to meet you.”
Source: Fluffers, Inc.
“Charlie stood there like a stone monolith, blinking at his friend. Former friend? Christ. Eventually, he managed to utter, “So it’s like that, then?”
Sean visibly swallowed, stood up straight, and seemed to force himself to meet Charlie’s provoking gaze. “It is exactly like that,” he replied, brave as can be.”
Source: Lost in Love
“Charlie Studd has written me a delightful letter... He thinks the Chinese language was invented by the devil to prevent the Chinese from ever hearing the Gospel properly.”
“Charlie: There's this really neat feature on your phone called, "read receipts." If you're going to ignore texts, you should probably turn that off. ;)”
Source: Never Never
“Charlie: These assignments--they don't matter. This course doesn't matter. College doesn't matter. These amazing, honest things you wrote--they matter”
Source: The Whale
“Charlie took her phone from her back pocket. She opened the 2009 report “Many Americans Mix Multiple Faiths” by the Pew Research Center, scrolled two-thirds of the way down the page, and showed it to Chris. It read: “Roughly three in ten Americans (29%) say they have felt in touch with someone who has died.”
“I would have never guessed that,” Chris exclaimed. “That’s almost one in three people who say they’ve been in contact with someone dead!”
“I was surprised too,” Charlie said. “And a man named Peter Fenwick, a neuropsychologist and former senior lecturer at King’s College who’s known for his near-death studies, says that deathbed visitors are common and usually involve first-degree relatives or spouses. He also said deathbed visions echo the person’s ‘cultural background’ and have been reported throughout history. What really surprised me was that he thinks the brain is a filter . . . that it filters out the greater whole, leaving only a tiny piece of what we refer to as our world and everything in it. And at the time of death, your consciousness separates from your brain, no longer needing the filter, and you merge with the cosmos—the whole—and become aware of all that is, was, and ever will be.”
Source: Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
“Charlie took my hand and, in a symbol as old as the world, placed it in Edward’s. I touched the cool miracle of his skin, and I was home.”
Source: Breaking Dawn: Twilight
“Charlie tried to focus on what she was saying, but his head felt packed with gauze. Like no one could reach him in here, where it hurt.”
Source: City on Fire
“Charlie?'
'Uh-huh?'
'Do you like me?'
'Uh-huh.'
'You know what I mean?'
'Uh-huh.'
'Are you nervous?'
'Uh-huh.'
'Don't be nervous.'
'Okay.”
“CHARLIE V
(THE LAST LAUGH OF THE COSMIC JESTER)
Di akhir pertunjukan,
Charlie muncul bukan sebagai manusia,
bukan sebagai gelandangan,
bukan sebagai politikus gagal,
bukan buruh algoritma—
melainkan sebagai bayangan
yang memantul pada sebuah bejana
di tengah gurun yang tidak punya sejarah.
Ia berdiri di sana,
dengan tubuh yang hampir tidak menyentuh tanah,
seperti makhluk yang lupa
apakah ia masih terikat gravitasi.
Dari kejauhan,
suara terompet perang dari masa lalu bergema:
Alexander yang menaklukkan dunia,
Caesar yang mencoba memerintah waktu,
Napoleon yang jatuh karena kesombongannya
Hitler yang mendadak gila—
tapi semuanya terdengar seperti komedi murahan
yang diputar di bioskop tanpa penonton.
Charlie tersenyum.
Ia tahu:
bahkan para penakluk terbesar pun
tidak lebih dari badut yang terlalu percaya diri
di hadapan semesta yang tak pernah berniat menjelaskan apa pun.
Ia merobek wajahnya—
bukan sebagai tindakan mutilasi,
melainkan sebagai bentuk meditasi paling radikal:
tindakan anatta,
pembubaran diri,
pembakaran ego di dalam tungku sunyi
yang menyala tanpa api.
Di balik wajahnya,
tidak ada apa-apa.
Tidak ada identitas.
Tidak ada “aku”.
Hanya ruang hampa
yang memantulkan kembali suara
lolongan serigala ketakutan manusia
dengan kejujuran yang memuakkan.
Ia tertawa.
Tawa itu bukan tawa seorang gelandangan,
bukan tawa seorang politisi,
bukan tawa pekerja pabrik—
melainkan tawa aktor sejati yang telah melampaui
semua peran yang pernah ia mainkan.
Tawa itu menggetarkan pasir,
menggoyang langit,
mengusir kesadaran palsu
yang dibangun oleh ribuan tahun peradaban.
Dan saat gema terakhirnya memudar,
Charlie berkata tanpa bibir,
tanpa suara,
tanpa bentuk:
“Tidak ada yang lucu.
Tidak ada yang ironis.
Tidak ada yang tragis.
Tidak ada yang suci.
Tidak ada yang hina.
Yang ada hanya kesadaran
sedang belajar menertawakan dirinya
agar ia tidak menjadi gila.”
Lalu dunia runtuh.
Diam.
Kosong.
Sunyi.
Dan barulah kemudian—
kita menyadari
bahwa selama ini kitalah
karakter yang ia tulis
menjadi bahan lelucon.
November 2025”
“Charlie was far from the she'd seen. She had language... all those years of energy poured into achieving the aesthetic of being educated rather than actually having learned anything.”
Source: True Biz
“Charlie was the only person in the whole world who believed that she would come back. He never lost faith.”
“Charlie whistled "Amazing Grace" as he drove. It was all I could do not to whip my head around and snap, Are you kidding me? Couldn't he pick something more appropriate, like "Shout at the Devil" or "Don't fear the Reaper"? Some people had no sense of the proper music for a kidnapping.”
“Charlie X”)? Those were the hints, as far as I’m concerned.”
“Charlie …" Silena’s eyes were a million miles away. "See Charlie.”
“Charlie, you’re one of the most gifted people I’ve ever known. And I don’t mean in terms of my other students. I mean in terms of anyone I’ve ever met.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Charlize stood up from where she sat and walked next to Marisol, who comfortingly placed an arm around Charlize’s shoulders. She attempted not to cry or choke on tears she'd been holding back for days. Getting fired for standing up for herself and other black women hurt more than she expected it to, but here she was—ready to make a difference and fight the biased system.”
Source: Solana
“Charlize Theron and Cate Blanchett are very good actresses.”
“Charlize Theron is perfect. She holds herself with so much poise and grace. I dont know if she looks so good because she has the best body or because she has the confidence to feel comfortable in what shes wearing.”
“Charlotte Bronte borrowed liberally and sloppily from Joseph Sheridan le Fanu when penning Jane Eyre. The originality of this classic novel is tarnished as a result.”
Source: The Best Ghost Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Ghost Anthology
“Charlotte comprende que el futuro no es un panorama ni una perspectiva, es un puño que te agarra, fuerte, irresistible, ineludible.”
Source: The Taste of Sorrow
“Charlotte Corday walked alone Paris birds sang sugar calls Charlotte walked down lanes of stone through the haze of perfume stalls Charlotte smelt the dead's gangrene Heard the singing guillotine”
Source: Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman
“Charlotte County had the second highest rate of fatalities in the hurricane Ian disaster.”
“Charlotte, darling, Henry said to his wife, who was staring at im in gape-mouthed horror. Jassamine, beside her, was wided eyed. Sorry im late. You know, i think i might nearly have the sensor working-
Will interrupted. Henry, he said, your on fire. You do know that, don't you?
Oh, yes, Henry said eagerly. The flames were now nearly to his shoulder. I've been working like a man possessed all day. Charlotte, did you hear what i said about the sensor?
Charlotte dropped her hand from her mouth. Henry! She shrieked. Your arm!
Henry glanced down at his arm, and his mouth dropped open.
Bloody hell!”
Source: Clockwork Angel
“Charlotte didn’t care. She was floating away in a sea of happiness, wrapped up in the beauty of second love.”
Source: Then Comes Love
“Charlotte Evans was used to feeling grungy. As a freelancer, she traveled on a shoestring, getting stories other writers did not, precisely because she wasn't fussy about how she lived. In the last twelve months, she had survived dust while writing about elephant keepers in Kenya, ice while writing about the spirit bear of British Columbia, and flies while writing about a family of nomads in India.”
Source: Sweet Salt Air
“Charlotte faceva sempre quello che le dicevo. Tu invece no. E questo è molto scocciante. Però anche divertente. E dolce." Stavolta non fu solo il suo sguardo a farmi vacillare.”
Source: Rubinrot