Quote by Alessandro Baricco Download Open image ““I once knew a man who built a railway all for himself.”” — Alessandro Baricco ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Trains are beautiful. They take people to places they've never been, faster than they could ever go themselves. Everyone who works on trains knows… — Sam Starbuck Copy Share Image
“The trains roared in on iron rails, bringing people from places he had never seen, taking them away to places he had only heard… — Victoria Wilcox Copy Share Image
“Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“All of my life, trains had been coming and going, interrupting Ever’s daily life with their loud disregard.” — Matthew Aaron Goodman Copy Share Image
“We're like old acquaintances on trains going in different directions.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Ever since I’d started riding the train by myself I’d loved to go there alone and roam around until I got lost, wandering deeper… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“It is hard to make railroading pleasant in any country. It is too tedious.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Trains, cars and every kind of vehicles do not only carry people, but they also carry people’s heavy thoughts and hidden hopelessnesses.” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death.… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“Bio je, zapravo, jedan od onih ljudi što vole prisustvovati vlastitom životu, držeći nedoličnom svaku težnju da ga prožive. Uočljivo je kako takvi ljudi… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s that life, at times, gets to you in a way that there’s really nothing more to say.” — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“Uvijek me fascinirao taj fenomen sa slikama. Stoje na zidu godinama, a onda, bez ikakvog povoda, ama baš ikakvog padnu, tras, padnu dole. Vise… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“Išla je i znala kuda treba da ide. To je bilo sve. Veličanstveno osećanje. Kad se sudbina napokon raskrili i postane razgovetna staza i… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“Doch es gibt Schiffe, die an absurderen Orten gestrandet sind. Ein Leben kann leicht in irgendeinem Gesicht stranden.” — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“He puts down the pen, folds the sheet of paper, and slips it inside an envelope. He stands up, takes from his trunk a… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived. — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“And carefully he brought Time to a halt, for as long as he wished.” — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
