obsidianstudy:

“who said it?”, pt. ii

this time, we’re going to have a list of the common and popular quotes you find all over the place that are quoted all the time and their authors!! enjoy! (:
(find pt. i here)

• “Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” 
• An Old Astronomer to His Pupil, Sarah Williams

• “The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.”

• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost

• “Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
  

• Albert Camus
• “Do I dare disturb the universe?”

• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot

• “And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
• East of Eden, John Steinbeck
• “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
• Paradise Lost, John Milton
• “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
• “We live as we dream—alone.”
• Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

• “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”

• A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J Maas

• “We are all broken. That’s how the light gets in.”

• a mashed up quote from Leonard Cohen and Ernest Hemingway

• “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
• Theodore Roosevelt
• “Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage at the dying of the light.”
• Do not go gentle into that good night, Dylan Thomas
• “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”
• Helen Keller
• “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
• Aristotle

• “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’“

• C.S. Lewis

• “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

• Oscar Wilde

• “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

• Oscar Wilde

• “If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.”

• multiple authors (incl. Malcolm X, Alexander Hamilton, Irene Dunne)
• “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
• Mark Twain

• “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”

• The Truth About Forever, Sarah Dessen

and there we have it, a collection of popular quotes from others! i hope this was helpful, and stay tuned for pt. iii and more! 

yours, 
joce xx