Quotes

A place for quotes I find interesting

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before.
B.Friedan - "The feminine mystique"

I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
Jack Kerouac- "On the road"

"We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so sad. "
Jack Kerouac- "On the road"

If you can change the way people think, she said. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you can do that, you can change the way people live their lives. And that's the only lasting thing you can create.
Chuck Palahniuk- "Choke"