Category: Quotes

  • The Handmaid’s Tale Quotes – Page 6 | Just Great DataBase

    The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow. The sky is clear but hard to make out, because of the searchlight; but yes, in the obscured sky a moon does float, newly, a wishing moon, a sliver of ancient rock, a goddess, a wink. The moon is a stone and the sky is full…

  • Quotes – Page 73 | Just Great DataBase

    What’s happened to me,’ he thought. It was no dream. Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis 107 Get thee to a nunnery, go. William Shakespeare Hamlet Hamlet 107 A mind not to be changed by place or time.The mind is its own place, and in itselfCan make a heav’n of hell, a hell of heav’n. John Milton…

  • The Great Gatsby Quotes – Page 13 | Just Great DataBase

    life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all. The Great Gatsby 0 Pero hubo un cambio en Gatsby que era simplemente incomprensible. Literalmente resplandecía; sin necesidad de palabra o gesto alguno de emoción, un nuevo bienestar irradiaba de él y llenaba la pequeña habitación. The Great Gatsby 0 They were…

  • All Quiet on the Western Front Quotes

    We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. All Quiet on the Western Front 436 It is very…

  • Quotes – Page 161 | Just Great DataBase

    Why don’t you write an anti-glacier book instead?’What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that too. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five 20 Fool:”He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health,a boy’s love, or a whore’s…

  • Jane Austen Quotes – Page 81 | Just Great DataBase

    But Mrs. John Dashwood was a strong caricature of himself;—more narrow-minded and selfish. Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 0 Lady Catherine was extremely indignant on the marriage of her nephew; and as she gave way to all the genuine frankness of her character in her reply to the letter which announced its arrangement, she sent…

  • Quotes – Page 387 | Just Great DataBase

    But they made no sound, and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever. F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby 1 Гордость скорее связана с нашим собственным о себе мнением, тщеславие же – с мнением других людей, которое нам бы хотелось, чтобы они составили о нас Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 1 Ти също имаш…

  • Quotes – Page 111 | Just Great DataBase

    I had rather be with you in your solitary rambles, than with these Scotch people whom I do not know; hasten the, my dear friend, to return, that I may again feel myself somewhat at home, which I cannot do in your absence. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein Henry Clerval 49 I am your wife if…

  • Jane Austen Quotes – Page 63 | Just Great DataBase

    I do not pretend to possess equal frankness with your ladyship. You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 1 There is hardly any personal defect,” replied Anne, “which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to. Jane Austen Persuasion 1 There is so much of…

  • Hamlet Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase

    Olmak ya da olmamak, işte bütün mesele bu!Düşüncemizin katlanması mı güzel Zalim kaderin yumruklarına, oklarına Yoksa diretip bela denizlerine karşı Dur, yeter demesi mi?Ölmek, uyumak sadece!Düşünün ki uyumakla yalnız Bitebilir bütün acıları yüreğin, Çektiği bütün kahırlar insanoğlunun. Uyumak, ama düş görebilirsin uykuda, o kötü. Çünkü, o ölüm uykularındaSıyrıldığımız zaman yaşamak kaygısındanNe düşler görebilir insan, düşünmeli…