Bohemian Quotes

“They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.”
― Gloria Whelan, Listening for Lions

“There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.”
― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

“The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.”
― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

“She was born to be free, let her run wild in her own way and you will never lose her.”
― Nikki Rowe

“I am a wild woman.
it would take a warrior to tame my spirit.”
― Nikki Rowe

“It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.”
― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

“Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.”
~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive”
― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

“True friends don't come with conditions.”
― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

“From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.”
~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive”
― Aaron Lauritsen

“Those who achieve the extraordinary are usually the most ordinary because they have nothing to prove to anybody. Be Humble.”
― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

“The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it's allied to myriad clichés, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic Gypsies, to describe artists and writers who stayed up all night and ignored the pressures of the industrial world.”
― Sarah Thornton, Seven Days in the Art World

“But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

“All night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of us far away, flying in his own aircraft to the stratospheric regions of his own dreams. There we understood that our vocation, our true vocation, was to move for eternity along the roads and seas of the world. Always curious, looking into everything that came before our eyes, sniffing out each corner but only ever faintly--not setting down roots in any land or staying long enough to see the substratum of things the outer limits would suffice.”
― Ernesto Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

“Don't tell a girl with fire in her veins and hurricane bones what she should and shouldn't do. In the blink of an eye, she will shatter that ridiculous cage you attempt to build around her beautiful bohemian spirit.”
― Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy

“I like being full of mystery and wonder, people always know im up to something but never know exactly what.”
― Nikki Rowe

“It’s plain to see that the romance has slightly slipped from the Bohemian lifestyle. But we’re literary Gypsies, all of us, and it’s only recently that we’re starting to realise we’re not alone. The Internet is connecting all the healers and storytellers, the wild people and mystics, the writers and painters, and the ones who are slightly cracked.

I’ve always loved wild people.”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“I was gypsy when gypsy wasn't cool.”
― Mishi McCoy

“I am care free by nature but that doesn't mean that I am careless or that I care less. I simply pass on passive-aggressive. Why dodge bullets? This world is not a place for cowards. If we are going to shoot then let's freaking shoot straight. Energy is easily recognized and understood. I don't make time anymore for people that I have to interpret beyond what they say and what they are really saying. It's not my Aspie nature. It is my angel nature. I know every thing isn't always black or white, but I am so over engaging with people who are 50 shades of grey. Be real with me or be gone....because if we aren't Really present with others then we are disconnected anyway.”
― Mishi McCoy

“ستوجد المرأة يوماً ما، في زمنٍ لا يعني فيه اسمها شيئاً عكس الذكورة وحسب، بل شيئاً خاصاً بنفسه، شيئاً يُفكَّر فيه ويوصَف بكلماتٍ لا تهدف إلى التحديد والشمول، بل إلى الحياة والوجود”
― راينر ماريا ريلكه

“She's a dark-eyed, red flame, bohemian hurricane.”
― Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy

“Both the Gypsies of the 19th century and the Bohemian scribblers and court jester types share similar personality traits. Both groups were known as drifters, dancers, minstrels and troubadours. And for their cheerful and pleasant approach to poverty. They were also known for stalking members of the opposite sex. Alcohol, words and the hue and glow of the artist’s easel were what they lived for”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“You can understand how the same word used to describe Gypsies in Western Europe came to also describe the poor artists of the Parisian slums”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“মানুষের সঙ্গে কোনো বিরোধ নেই


না, মানুষের সঙ্গে আমার আর বিরোধ নেই কোন–
এখন পাওনাদার দুর্ঘটনায় পড়লে তাকে নিয়ে যেতে পারি হাসপাতালে
প্রাক্তন প্রেমিকার স্বামীর কাছ থেকে অনায়াসে চাইতে পারি চার্মিনার
দাড়ি গজানোর মতো অনায়াস এ জীবনে আমি
রামকৃষ্ণের কালিপ্রেমে দেখি সার্বভৌম যৌনশান্তি
বাবলিদের স্বামীপ্রেমে দেখি সার্বজনীন যৌনসুখ
একটা চটি হারিয়ে গেলে আমি কিনে ফেলি এক জোড়া নতুন চপ্পল
না, মানুষের সঙ্গে আমার আর বিরোধ নেই কোন
বোনোর বুকের থেকে সরে যায় আমার অস্বস্তিময় চোখ
আমি ভাইফোঁটার দিন হেঁটে বেড়াই বেশ্যাপাড়ায়
আমি মরে গেলে দেখতে পাব জন্মান্তরের করিডোর
আমি জন্মাবার আগের মুহূর্তে আমি জানতে পারিনি আমি জন্মাচ্ছি
আমি এক পরিত্রাণহীন নিয়তিলিপ্ত মানুষ
আমি এক নিয়তিহীন সন্ত্রাসলিপ্ত মানুষ
আমি দেখেছি আমার ভিতর এক কুকুর কেঁদে চলে অবিরাম
তার কুকুরীর জন্যে এক সন্ন্যাসী তার সন্ন্যাসিনীর স্বেচ্ছাকৌমার্য
নষ্ট করতে হয়ে ওঠে তৎপর লম্পট আর সেই লাম্পট্যের কাছে
গুঁড়ো হয়ে যায় এমনকী স্বর্গীয় প্রেম– শেষ পর্যন্ত আমি
কবিতার ভেতর ছন্দের বদলে জীবনের আনন্দ খোঁজার পক্ষপাতী
তাই জীবনের সঙ্গে আমার কোন বিরোধ নেই– মানুষের সঙ্গে
আমার কোন বিরোধ নেই”
― ফালগুনী রায় ( Falguni Roy )

“in the 1970s people still referred to my mother as a Communist because she had a subscription toThe Atlantic Monthly,”
― Haven Kimmel

“A Bohemian life,
filled with poetry,
it cuts like a knife,
without coquetry!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine

“Love is a Bohemian child... it has never, never known a law.”
― Catherine Meurisse, La jeune femme et la mer

“On my end-of-the-year report card all she wrote was “Is disruptive in class. Colors outside the lines. Talks out of turn.” When I showed it to my parents, they read it out loud to me, and my mom said, “Good for you, sweetheart.” And my dad gave me a little pat on the back.”
― Haven Kimmel, A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana

“Nature is an old school, frequented by hippies on weekends.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“In life, like art, there has to be an essential sense of weirdness.”
― Jo Brunini

“Aku melihatnya luntang lantung. Mungkin ia merasa bahagia dengan caranya sendiri. Seperti mencintai istri yang telah meninggalkannya ke alam baka. Ia masih menulis kata kata romantis tentang istrinya itu di status WA. Walau sepanjang sepengetahuanku, ia tak pernah mampu dengan sungguh sungguh membuat istrinya bahagia. Atau barangkali saja ia memiliki penafsiran lain atas makna kebahagiaan yang sesungguhnya. Kalau berpuluh puluh kali ia bilang padaku, bahwa ia tak bakalan pernah menyerah. Itu pula sebabnya kenapa ia berpuluh puluh kali juga berganti profesi; menjadi koki di restaurant A dan lalu pindah kerja ke cafe B. Sehari mencoba peruntungan jadi sopir pribadi, di lain waktu menjalankan mobil carteran. Beberapa minggu mangkal sebagai sopir truk dan lalu pindah ke bus antar kota dan bahkan mengoperasionalkan alat alat berat. Ia bisa dengan gampangnya menclok ke sana atau ke sini. Bertukar peran menjadi si anu atau si oni, sesuka suka hati dia saja. Kalau terjegal ia oleh rasa bosan, maka ia bakalan balik ke rumah yang bukan miliknya selain apa kalau bukan hanya untuk sekedar ampiran saja. Lalu mencoba menanam padi atau cabe atau kopi atau apa saja yang mungkin. Konon katanya ia drop out dari jurusan mesin sebuah universitas ternama dan terjungkal hanya gara gara ia tak sejalan dengan apa kata dosennya. Dan begitulah, ia memilih bebas merdeka seperti burung walau kadang harus menggadaikan harga diri, tutup lobang gali lobang demi menegakkan gaya hidupnya yang luntang lantung ala bohemian.”
― Titon Rahmawan