English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Stanislaw Lem Quotes

Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way

Stanislaw Lem

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

I will not seek it," the other replied. "It has been opened once and it is enough. And you -- are you sure that man can conquer until he has been wholly defeated? are you sure that he can find plenitude till he has known utter despair? You will not let him despair of himself, but it may be that only in such a complete despair he finds that which cannot despair and is something other than man. Charles Williams
Honore de Balzac quote: "Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of..."
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. Honore de Balzac
Willie Sutton quote: "It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at..."
It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night. Willie Sutton
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls. Anais Nin
Walt Whitman quote: "I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones."
I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones. Walt Whitman
It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people. Bhumibol Adulyadej
Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows and angles, the truth is, we'd rather curl up with someone like Charlotte - a woman who's soft when a guy wraps his arms around her; a woman who might have a smear of flour on her shirt the whole day and not notice or care, not even when she goes out to meet with the PTA; a woman who doesn't feel like an exotic vacation but is the home we can't wait to come back to. Jodi Picoult
Juliette Binoche quote: "People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth..."
People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go. Juliette Binoche
I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen. Elizabeth Pena
Thy shrunk voice sounds too calmly, sanely woeful to me. In no Paradise myself, I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should’st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can’st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can’st not go mad? Herman Melville
John Steinbeck quote: "The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you..."
The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we. John Steinbeck
Mark Twain quote: "Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git..."
Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin. Mark Twain
Janis Joplin quote: "On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then..."
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone. Janis Joplin
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything. Henry Ward Beecher