"Humboldt's Gift" Quotes
A struggling writer navigates love, friendship, and the complexities of success while honoring the memory of his late mentor.
fiction | 496 pages | Published in 2013
Quotes
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there.
The three most important things in life are: First, to be kind. Second, to be kind. And third, to be kind.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
The mind can be its own enemy.
It's not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.
You know, in the instant one is remembered, I suppose one becomes eternal.
It's a funny thing about love: sometimes it's lost without knowing why, and sometimes it's won without knowing why.
A person can be destroyed but not defeated.
The world is always ready to accept a thing of beauty if it is difficult to understand.
