Q Quotes
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“Quería llorar, pero no lo haría, el llanto propio es a veces un trofeo para otros, y un trofeo solo debe ser entregado a quien se lo merece.”
Source: Hay palabras que los peces no entienden
“Quería que el amor lo conquistase todo. Pero el amor no puede conquistarlo todo. No puede hacerlo todo por sí solo.
Ha de confiar en que seamos nosotros quienes conquistamos por él”
Source: Every Day
“Quería que la gente la apreciara no por su cara bonita ni por su título familiar, sino por lo que pudiera hacer con sus propias manos”
Source: Heartless
“Quería que la incineraran y que la echaran allí arriba. Sabía que nadie subiría con frecuencia y eso era lo que buscaba: que la sacudieran pronto, que su recuerdo no se convirtiera en una excusa lamentable para dar sentido a la existencia de los vivos".”
Source: Mujeres de retales
“Quería que lo llamara. Quería que lo echara de menos.”
Source: An Abundance of Katherines
“Quería que mi corazón floreciera
y albergara una sombra de amor.”
“Quería salvarme de la droga que contamina el cuerpo y las venas y no de la otra, la que entra por debajo y por los ojos, la que se enquista en el corazón y lo corroe, la maldita droga que los más ingenuos llaman amor, pero que es tan nociva y mortal como la que se consigue en las calles envuelta en paqueticos.”
“Quería sentir a Luke tendido a mi lado, pero no había espacio”
“Quería sentir también yo que tenia un sitio en alguna parte por lo menos”
Source: Grădina de sticlă
“Quería tan sólo intentar vivir lo que tendía a brotar espontáneamente de mí. ¿Por qué había de serme tan difícil?”
Source: Demian
“Quería trabajar y vivir sola. Eso me convirtió en sexualmente sospechosa. Después deseé tener un hijo sin que para ello tuviera que compartir mi cuerpo ni mi vida. También eso me convirtió en sexualmente sospechosa.”
Source: The world according to Garp
“Quess’s beak shook. Her whole body shook. There were silver tears coming out of her eyes as she looked at Urious.
“Y-y-you killed my children,” she managed.
Urious’s eyes were wide, in pain or shock, Tresh didn’t know.
“You k-k-killed my mate.”
Urious nodded. Blood pooled behind him, a mixture of his own and Vitra’s.
Tresh gently gripped the spear in her paws and pulled it out of Vitra. The dead gryphon’s body fell atop Urious.
Tresh tried to take the spear from Quess, but her brother’s mate pulled it away and placed it against Urious’s throat. The point of the spear was as unsteady as Quess.
“I still hear the screams of gryphlets and chicks when I sleep,” Urious said. “I knew one of their parents would find me. It’s okay. Please, end this. I’m so sorry.”
Despite everything Tresh had been thinking since the attack, she found herself putting a paw over Quess’s talons. “The dead cannot forgive,” she said. The dreams of her nieces and nephews played in her head. “We must forgive for them.”
Quess quivered. “They are restless in the ocean of s-s-stars.”
This time it was Bruen who put his talons on Quess’s shoulders. “This is how you quiet them. You do what they cannot.”
Tresh’s heart beat in her chest, over and over, a hundred times before Quess’s grip slackened. Bruen carefully took the javelin from her and held her while she cried.”
Source: Starling
“Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.”
“Questa casa, secondo i miei piani, dovrebbe invecchiare molto presto e riportarmi il ricordo di certe case autunnali dell'infanzia in campagne etnee poco distanti da qui. Il ricordo di quelle case di campagna che si confondono nel mio pensiero mi è rimasto nella mente come l'espressione più alta della felicità.”
Source: Diario Siciliano
“Questa generazione di adolescenti è più rapida delle precedenti, entra in contatto con molto più mondo in molto meno tempo, conosce più cose della mia, ma ha anche un punto debole: ha meno criteri di decodifica dei messaggi, non sa da dove si prenda il mondo, indossa la realtà spesso al contrario, come una maglietta in cui non si distingue il davanti dal dietro, l'esterno dall'interno. Trova la soluzione a furia di provare e riprovare, se non si scoraggia prima. Abbiamo dato loro tutto per godere la vita, ma non abbiamo dato loro una ragione per viverla. Abbiamo scambiato la felicità con il benessere, i sogni con i costumi.”
Source: L'arte di essere fragili: Come Leopardi può salvarti la vita
“Questa luce, cioè la storia, è spietata; essa ha questo di strano e di divino, e cioè che quantunque sia luce, e precisamente perché è luce, mette spesso dell'ombra là dove si vedono raggi; dello stesso uomo fa due fantasmi differenti, e l'uno attacca l'altro, e ne fa giustizia, e le tenebre del despota lottano con lo splendore del capitano. Da qui, una misura più vera nell'apprezzamento definitivo dei popoli. Babilonia violata diminuisce Alessandro; Roma incatenata diminuisce Cesare; Gerusalemme uccisa diminuisce Tito. La tirannia segue il tiranno. E' una sventura per un uomo lasciare dietro di sé dell'ombra che ha la forma sua.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Questa maniera di scrivere, che mi pare andare nella direzione della verità, mi aiuta a uscire dalla solitudine e dall'oscurità del ricordo individuale tramite la scoperta di un significato più generale. Ma sento che qualcosa in me oppone resistenza, vorrei conservare di mia madre delle immagini puramente affettive, il calore o le lacrime, senza dar loro un senso.”
Source: A Woman's Story
“Questa mattina a scuola i ragazzi mi hanno completamente disorientato. È incredibile come ogni volta che mi sembra di capire come funzionano, loro rimescolino le carte. Il mio è un lavoro da apprendista perpetua: l'esperienza forse un giorno mi aiuterà, ma rimane il fatto che a scuola si impara tutti i giorni sul campo.”
Source: La supplente
“Questa ragazza è una ragazza copertina.
Tutto quello che c’è dentro è già stato visto e rivisto. Formulato in pensieri da altri cervelli, in milioni di altri tempi. Gli stessi scatti ammiccanti e blandamente maliziosi, gli stessi risultati di stupidi test della personalità. Gli stessi consigli su come preservarsi dalle scottature estive, consigli che poi non segui mai. Gli stessi Ti Accompagno A Casa e come andrà finire, neanche questo è una grossa novità.
Questa ragazza pensa, non sto baciando un uomo. Sto baciando la sua solitudine. La donna che l’ha umiliato. La stanchezza di restare fino a notte inoltrata in un posto dove non va più nessuno. Sto baciando il peso dei suoi errori, la disperazione di regalare a suo figlio una vita migliore. Della sua. Di quella di tutti quanti noi.
Questa ragazza pensa, perdonami se non me la sento di scoparmi i tuoi guai.”
Source: Cronache dalla fine del mondo
“Questa terra che si arrende a leggi matematiche elementari per le quali chi lavora aggiunge, mentre chi va in pensione sottrae.”
“Questa terra ha cresciuto numerosi figli, favorendo sia quelli buoni che quelli cattivi. Non è la terra la responsabile delle avversità della gente, è la gente stessa”, raccontava Okokpujie, il cantastorie del villaggio, a una folla di bambini accorsi come sempre ad ascoltarlo. Pg.16”
Source: Amende: Acqua di Fiume
“Questa terra, signor marchese, beve sangue da millenni. Eppure non c'è guerra che, una volta passati cent'anni, non appaia a chiunque come del tutto inutile.”
Source: El marques de Bolibar
“Questa volta li avevo affrontati tutti i mostri.
Avevo combattuto contro i miei demoni, da sola.
Non avevo vinto; ci sono guerre che nessuno può vincere.
Però mi ero battuta.
A ognuno avevo strappato un pezzo di carne con i denti. A ciascuno avevo strappato la maschera. Li avevo guardati dentro le orbite vuote e dentro ci avevo visto l'inferno. Ne ero stata risucchiata e, lì in fondo, avevo incontrato le mie paure.
Le avevo affrontate, tutte.
Non avevo vinto.
Ma non avevano vinto nemmeno loro.
Ero qui.
Una sopravvissuta, ancora una volta.”
Source: Senza più nome
“Questa è l'esperienza suprema. La più alta nella vita dell'essere umano. L'incontro che stiamo vivendo adesso noi. La cosa più grande che esista.”
Source: Egenmäktigt förfarande
“Questa è la mia gente.
La mia gente che in tutta la vita
non ha fatto altro che lavorare.”
Source: Storia della mia gente
“Questa è la storia, che fin da bambina,
turba i miei sogni più inquieti.
E tu? ne sai forse di più?”
Source: Di undici foglie
“Questa è una delle esperienze più singolari: svegliarsi in quello che sembra un buon giorno, prepararsi al lavoro, ma non cominciarlo ancora veramente. Questo momento racchiude infinite possibilità, intere ore a venire. La mente ronza. Questa mattina può penetrare la foschia, i condotti intasati, raggiungere l'oro. Riesce a sentirlo dentro di sé, una seconda se stessa indescrivibile, o piuttosto una se stessa parallela, più pura. Se fosse religiosa la chiamerebbe "l'anima". E' più della somma del suo intelletto e delle sue emozioni, più della somma delle sue esperienze, anche se corre attraverso tutte e tre come vene di metallo brillante. E' una facoltà interiore che riconosce i misteri che animano il mondo, perché è fatta della stessa sostanza, e quando è molto fortunata lei è capace di scrivere attingendo direttamente da quella facoltà. Scrivere in quello stato è la soddisfazione più profonda che conosca. Ma la sua capacità di accedervi va e viene senza preavviso. Può impugnare la penna e seguirla con la mano mentre si muove per il foglio; può impugnare la penna e scoprire che è solo lei: una donna in vestaglia che regge una penna, timorosa e incerta, con una competenza solo superficiale e nessuna idea su dove cominciare o cosa scrivere.
Impugna la penna.
La signora Dalloway disse che avrebbe comprato lei i fiori.”
Source: The Hours
“Questa è una storia d'amore. Non immaginavo che l'amore potesse declinarsi in così tanti generi, nè che l'amore potesse indurre le persone a fare le cose più disparate.
Non immaginavo che esistessero modi tanto diversi di dirsi addio.”
Source: Linger
“Questa è una storia di gente perduta. Non morta o scomparsa, di gente persa. A volte perdere una persona è facile come perdere un bottone. È prezioso, dai per scontato che sia sempre lì, poi ti impigli in qualcosa, o un filo si allenta o si logora, e – senza manco accorgertene, così da un momento all’altro – il bottone non c’è più. Capita così, a volte, anche con le persone. Ti volti e non ci sono più.”
Source: Istanzias - Racconti attorno al fuoco
“Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core.”
Source: Dogs Never Lie about Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs
“Questing is hard. Fortunately, Thomas is here to spoon-feed them answers. We're one step away from him giving them an instruction sheet by Ikea, with cartoonish diagrams and a little goddess-slaying allen wrench.”
Source: Rise of the Spider Goddess
“Question (from a reader) : Will the Wise Goddess Athena overthrow Zeus and become the ruler of Olympus? Athena's answer : What an interesting idea . . . No, just kidding, Dad. Put away the lightning bolt.”
“Question: A number of people have noted that you use the term "libertarian socialist" in the same context as you use the word ''anarchism." Do you see these terms as essentially similar? Is anarchism a type of socialism to you? The description has been used before that anarchism is equivalent to socialism with freedom. Would you agree with this basic equation?
The introduction to Guerin's book that you mentioned opens with a quote from an anarchist sympathizer a century ago, who says that "anarchism has a broad back," and "endures anything." One major element has been what has traditionally been called "libertarian socialism." I've tried to explain there and elsewhere what I mean by that, stressing that it's hardly original; I'm taking the ideas from leading figures in the anarchist movement whom I quote, and who rather consistently describe themselves as socialists, while harshly condemning the "new class" of radical intellectuals who seek to attain state power in the course of popular struggle and to become the vicious "red bureaucracy" of which Bakunin warned; what's often called "socialism." I rather agree with Rudolf Rocker's perception that these (quite central) tendencies in anarchism draw from the best of Enlightenment and classical liberal thought, well beyond what he described. In fact, as I've tried to show they contrast sharply with Marxist-Leninist doctrine and practice, the "libertarian" doctrines that are fashionable in the U.S. and UK particularly, and other contemporary ideologies, all of which seem to me to reduce to advocacy of one or another form of illegitimate authority, quite often real tyranny.”
Source: Chomsky On Anarchism
“Question all as to their ways and learn the secrets that they hold”
“Question all information when you receive it. You might not even trust me Look at me, I've got a blanket over me head.”
“Question all “your” ideas and ideologies - about
everything. You’d be wise to look at a house from every perspective before you choose to live in it.”
“Question & Answer!!
Academic: They ask question, listen answer!
Police: They ask question, not accept your answer!
Politician: They ask question, they give the answer!
Scientist: They ask question, question the answer!
Children: They ask question as long as you give answer!
Religion: All questions have same answer!
Teacher: They ask question, correct your answer!
Student: They ask question, forget the answer!
Guilty: Answer before question!
Arrogant: Ask question, does not care answer!
Wife: Asks question, asks the answer – twice!”
Source: Scientific Computing in Python
“Question :...ARE OUR RELATIONSHIPS INFLUENCED BY PREVIOUS LIVES?
Osho : Don't think much about past lives, and don't think much about the future. The present is enough.
..it is coming from the past, but don't think about it because then you will get more complicated. Make things easier.
It is going on - from your past lives things have a continuity, so I don't deny the fact, but don't get burdened by it. It will continue in the future, but don't think about it. The present is more than enough. Munch the cake and say: THIS cake is delicious. Don't think of the past and don't think of the future; they will take care of themselves.
Nothing is discontinuous. You have been in relationships in the past. You have loved, you have hated, you have made friends and you have made enemies. That continues, known, unknown to you, it is always there. But if you start brooding about it, you will miss the present moment.
THIS moment is all that is given to you. Work it out, as if this moment is all. Behave as if this moment is all and work out how you can transform your energies into a loving phenomenon - this very moment.
People come to me and they want to know about their past lives. They HAD past lives, but it is irrelevant. Why this inquiry? What are you going to do about the past? Nothing can be done now.
The past is past and it cannot be undone. You cannot change it. You cannot go back. That's why nature, in its wisdom, doesn't allow you to remember past lives. Otherwise you would go mad.
You may be in love with a girl. If you suddenly become aware that that girl was your mother in your past life, things will become very complicated. Then what to do? And when that girl has been your mother in a past life, making love to her now will create guilt. Not making love to her will also create guilt, because you love her.
That's why I say nature in its wisdom never allows you to remember your past lives - unless you come to a point where it can be allowed, when you become so meditative that nothing disturbs you, then the gates open and all your past lives are before you. It is an automatic mechanism, though sometimes the mechanism doesn't work. Through accidents some children are born who can remember.
You don't remember because it would be difficult for you to manage. Even in this life you are making such a mess - many lives remembered, you would simply go mad.
The relevant point is: be here and now, and work out your way.
If you can work it out through relationship, beautiful. If you cannot work it out through relationship, then work it out in your loneliness. These are the two paths. Love means working out your path through relationship. And meditation: working it out in your loneliness. Love and meditation - these are the two paths.
Feel which will suit you. Then bring your total energies to it, and move on that path.”
Source: My Way: The Way of the White Clouds
“question asked
the rain
your answer”
“Question asked with a matching answer, help to light your path in life, as you light up your path, you have lightened the world; which is your contribution to humanity.”
“Question authority... Then ignore it!”
“Question authority; but, raise your hand first.”
Source: Chutzpah
“Question authority; think for yourself. Talk to people, do things unrelated to school - to come up with your own framework for living. The world is too complex and people are too different to be overly prescriptive about the details.”
“Question : BELOVED MASTER, SHOULD ONE TRY TO BE RICH OR NOT?
Osho : A rich life is something inner. And I am not against outer things, remember, but basically a rich life is something inner. If you are inwardly rich you can make even outer things richer by your inner light. For example, if the buddha lives in a hut, he lives in the hut as if the hut is a palace. If the buddha lives in the palace, of course he will be able to enjoy the palace more than anybody else in the world. If he can enjoy the hut as a palace, what to say about the palace itself? Wherever he is he finds ways to enjoy life.
The whole art of sannyas is to live a rich life - but the richness comes through your inner awareness. You can live a very poor life and you can be very rich outwardly; you can have a big bank balance, but you can live a dog's life.
I know very many rich people. I feel sorry for them. They have all, but they are living in such a poor way that I cannot conceive what blindness has befallen them. Can't they see their beautiful houses, their beautiful gardens? But they don't have any sensitivity. So the flowers come and go and they pass those flowers every day, but they don't see.
Otherwise a single flower is enough. And whether the flower has grown in your garden or in your neighbor's garden, who cares?
You don't possess the stars, still you can enjoy them. Or do you first have to possess them, and only then you will be able to enjoy them? You don't possess the birds in the sky, but you can enjoy them.
What you need is not more possessions. What you need is more sensitiveness, more aesthetic sensibility, more musical ears, more artistic eyes. What you need is a vision which transforms everything into something significant and meaningful.
You ask me, Asango, "Should one try to be rich or not?"
You ARE rich! You have been given already that which you need. Let it grow, and then whatsoever you have on the outside will be enough.
You can see my sannyasins living here. They have not anything really that you can call possessions, but you cannot find more happy people anywhere in the world. For no reason they are happy, there is nothing to be happy about! But something inner has started growing, something like a subtle fragrance which only people who have sensibility, sensitiveness, can feel; others can't see it.
Many people have asked me, "Why do your sannyasins look so happy?" The why cannot be answered easily, because they want to know something on the outside which is causing the happiness.
There is nothing on the outside. But still, my people are immensely happy. And they are not just sitting idly, they are working hard, and working hard for no rewards, no pay; they don't get anything. But something inner is happening; that is real richness.”
“Question : BELOVED OSHO, I AM JUST CURIOUS. HAVE YOU READ THE BOOK ZORBA THE GREEK BY KAZANTZAKIS? I LOVE IT SO MUCH. IS NOT ZORBA EXACTLY THE WAY YOU WANT US TO BE? AT LEAST THAT IS HOW I UNDERSTAND YOUR TEACHING.
Osho : I have been Zorba the Greek for many lives. I need not read the book; that is my autobiography. And that's what I would like you to be.
Take life joyfully, take life easily, take life relaxedly, don't create unnecessary problems.
Ninety-nine percent of your problems are created by you because you take life seriously.
Seriousness is the root cause of problems. Be playful, and you will not miss anything - just be alive, be abundantly alive. Live each moment as if this is the last moment. Live it intensely; let your torch burn from both sides together. Even if it is only for one moment, that is enough.
One moment of intense totality is enough to give you the taste of God.
One moment of clarity, totality, spontaneity, and you burn like a flame. Just one moment is enough! One moment will make you eternal; you will enter from that moment into eternity.
Live this moment as totally as possible.
Let a little irrationality always be there. That makes you capable of playing, being playful; that helps you to relax.
And don't wait for next time...
Not that you will not be born again; you will be born again, but then you will forget. Then you will start again from ABC.
..next time you don't remember - that's the problem. You lose all memory of the past life.
Then again you start from ABC......
So I would not say to you to wait for the next time. Take hold of this moment!
Even if you are eighty-five you can start living. And what is there to lose when you are eighty-five? If you go barefoot on the beach in the spring, if you collect daisies - even if you die in that, nothing is wrong. To die barefoot on the beach is the right way to die. To die collecting daisies is the right way to die. Whether you are eighty-five or fifteen doesn't matter. Take hold of this moment. Be a Zorba.
You ask: "I am just curious. Have you read the book Zorba the Greek? I love it so much."
Only loving it won't help. Be it! Sometimes it happens that you love the opposite of what you are. You enjoy the opposite of what you are - because it releases fantasies in you. It gives you a vision of how you would like to be: that's the appeal of a Zorba.
But loving the book will not help. That's what people have been doing down the ages.
Be a Zorba. Remember it: loving books is not going to help, only being helps.
"I love it so much. Is not Zorba exactly the way you want us to be?"
Not exactly, because I would not like many Zorbas in the world. Not exactly, because that would be ugly and monotonous and boring. You be a Zorba in your own way - not exactly.
Never try to imitate anybody, never be an imitator; that is suicide. Then you will never be able to enjoy. You will always remain a carbon copy, you will never be the original.
And all that happens in life - truth, beauty, good, liberation, meditation, love - happens to the original, never to the carbon copy. Beware - not exactly; that is dangerous. If you simply start following Zorba and start doing things as he is doing them you will get into trouble. That's how people have done it.
Learn from Zorba, learn the secret, but never try to imitate. Learn the climate, appreciate, go into it, sympathize with it, participate with Zorba, and then go on your own. Then be yourself.”
“Question boldly even the existence of God.”
“Question convention.”
“QUESTION: Do you believe that by nature human beings yearn for freedom? Or in the interests of safety, security, and conformity, do we settle for order?
CHOMSKY: These are really matters of faith rather than knowledge. On the one hand, you have the Grand Inquisitor who tells you that what humans crave is submission, and therefore Christ is a criminal and we have to vanquish freedom. That’s one view. The other view, held by Rousseau, for example, is that people are born to be free and that their basic instinct is the desire to free themselves from coercion, authority, and oppression. Where you stake your hopes depends on what you believe. I’d like to believe that people are born to be free, but if you ask for proof, I couldn’t give it to you.”
“Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance.”
“Question every damn ism, including atheism and god-ism.”