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"I may only be a pothole in the road to you, but I'm gonna be one heck of a deep pothole."
"This world was ever, is now, and ever shall be an ever-living fire, with measures of its kindling and measures going out"-Heraclitus
"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box." -Italian Proverb
"Smile! ...Tommorow Will be Worse."
"They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We shall remember them."
-Laurence Binyen, For the Fallen
"'He means well' is useless unless he does well." -Plautus
"They one said that every atom of our body was once part of a star...maybe im not leaving...maybe im just going home.." ~Gattaca
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born". ~ Anais Nin
"No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up." Lily Tomlin
"You cannot run away from a weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?" - Robert Louis Stevenson
"The eternal quest of individual human beings is to shatter their loneliness." - Norman Cousins
Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.--William Hazlitt, On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth
That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself. --Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows, 1989
"Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines." --Edward Young, "Night Thoughts" (1742)
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. -Arthur Schopenhauer
Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself. - Arthur Schopenhauer
If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out. - E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. - Don Marquis
The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever. - Anatole France
Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and tranistory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together. -George Santayana
"There is nothing permanent except change." Heraclitus
"The world's a scene of changes." Abraham Cowley
For what wears out the life of mortal men?
'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; / 'Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, / Exhaust the energy of strongest souls / And numb the elastic powers." - Matthew Arnold
His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. ~J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, referring to The Last Homely House
If at first you don't succeed, well, so much for skydiving. Victor O'Reilly, Games of the Hangman
The beginning is the most important part of the work. Plato, The Republic. Book II. 377B
One man scorned and covered with scars
still strove with his last ounce of courage
to reach the unreachable stars;
and the world will be better for this.
~ Mitch Leigh, The Quest, based on Cervantes
The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest. ~Bion
I just got skylights put in at my place. the people who live above me are furious.~steven wright
"Life is eternal, and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight." -Anonymous
“We do not know very much of the future except that from generation to generation the same things happen again and again. -Anonymous
"We all must find the place on earth that belong to, or we are lost forever with a incomplete life”
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.- Mark Twain
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. - Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
It is not a way of life that a wise man proposes, but a way around life. - Christopher Spranger, The Effort To Fall
The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others. -Russell Edson
Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself. - George Santayana
"We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it." --Eeyore
"The gene pool could use a little chlorine." -Bumper sticker
A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal. - Winston Churchill
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. --Norman Cousins
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time. --George Orwell
Always do what's right. It will gratify half of humankind and astound the other. --Mark Twain
...when all else fails, duck. It's not practical, but it can be momentarily comforting. - UNIT Procedures Manual, Zen Division.
Use the talents you possess -- for the woods would be silent if no birds sang but the best. -Henry Van Dyke
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. -- Chinese Proverb
I'm not ugly, I'm just aesthetically ambiguous.
Pride's like summer, it's a lot of fun and it usually comes before fall.
When you can't walk around in someone else's shoes, your soul has worn thin.
The best things in life are usually already taken.
The downside of being better than everyone else is that people tend to assume you're pretentious.
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. - Quentin Crisp
Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousend are bastards. - Theodore Dreiser
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.- Paul Gauguin
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. - William Burroughs
The average person thinks he isn't. - Father Larry Lorenzoni
The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist. - George Bernard Shaw
"Win when you can, lose if you must, but ALWAYS cheat!"
The first and great commandment is, Don't Let Them Scare You. --Elmer Davis
The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long... and you have burned so very, very brightly... --"Bladerunner"
The Meaning Of Life: The reason that we're all here is that it was too crowded where we were supposed to go. --Steven Wright
We're giving you a new chance at life, and an opportunity to screw it up in a new and original way. --Holly, "Red Dwarf"
When the first living thing was created, I was there, waiting. And when the last living thing shall perish, my job will be done. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave. --Death, "The Sandman"
You get what everyone gets. You get a lifetime.
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete. -Raoul Vaneigem
Show me an idealistic person who says that life must be preserved at any cost and I will show you a practical person who will betray anyone, anytime, to remain alive.
Between depriving a man of an hour of his life and depriving him of his life exists only a difference of degree. ~Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
Life, like some grand mosaic slowly loses hold over time, and the fragile strands that connect the many different parts unravels. The universe is a mirror, fragile and reflective, and we all stand in awe of our own human vanity. Fools see the universe as linear, absolute, all knowing. The wise see the universe as chaotic, unknown, fragile. Only on the verge of infinity can one see the fall apart universe. Sadness is knowing that we all stand upon a universe with a cracked glass bottom, and in an instant we may all sink into oblivion. Everything falls apart. Empires rise and crumble as tin soldiers hold plastic banners of righteous intent, all soaked with the blood of innocents. Hands raise and fall to the deafening sound of a million questions all unanswered. Love is just another unfelt emotion, talked about but never seen in full bloom. Love is only rumor and hearsay in the fall apart universe. Eventually we all must stand upon the jagged glass of the broken boundaries and broken promises. We must all suffer the soul bleeding that follows as the tattered splinters dig deep. -Patrick Goins, The Fall Apart Universe
"If life is a role-playing game, I have a bone to pick with the Game Master." -Scott "Jesus" Watson
To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to return step by step to imbecility, from the time of lisping to that of doting; to live among knaves and charlatans of all kinds; to die between one man who takes your pulse and another who troubles your head; never to know where you come from, why you come and where you are going! That is what is called the most important gift of our parents and nature. Life. -Denis Diderot
"You know," said Arthur, "it's times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen."
-Adams, Douglas
Who am I? Who are you? That is to say, "Who are you really?" Do you know? Does anyone know? The restraints of this society make us put up so many walls of bullshit and facades to hide who we are that it is almost impossible to tell who anyone really is. We dig ourselves into a comfortable hole to hide away from the eyes of our peers, and it's in this hole that we bury ourselves. Dig yourselves out. Claw your way back into the light of day. Let your true self breathe, and in doing that, live. -Patrick Goins, Half life
“People don’t want to change anymore. People don’t want to have to think, to use their imaginations, to aspire to anything more than mediocrity or to open their minds to possibility. They just want regular meals and an easy life. Now, there’s not really anything totally inherently bad about regular meals […] The real problem is that now, nobody wants to accept anything new. […] Humanity has chosen to live in a world of crap. It’s a least-common-denominator dystopia, and neither Traditionalist nor Technocrat can jar these six billion limps of flesh from their programmed complacency. [] The Masses have spoken, and they’ve chosen absolute slack-ass mediocrity…” ~Mage: The Ascension
Tedium is the bane of immortality. -Neil Lowe
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. -Emily Dickinson
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat. ~George Eliot
"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat."
"Hi! I'm heavily armed, easily bored & off the medication."
"'Courage is Easy By Candlelight. Your Faith, I Suspect, Is In the Flame.' Death grinned." ~Terry Pratchett, Maskerade
Your emotions make you a monster. The question, then, is "Would you rather be a feeling monster or a non-feeling machine?". -Lincoln Nielson
"The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition." -Henry Miller
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything’s fine. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
"Some people are like slinkies...not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs."
"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?" Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." - Groucho Marx
"They say you live every single day for the rest of your life. All this is true except for one day, the day you die." - American Beauty
"It's every man for himself, that's what I think."
"Yes Yossarian, but suppose EVERYONE felt that way."
"Then, I'd be a bloody fool not to, wouldn't I?"
- A dialogue from "Catch 22"
In "People" magazine, Madonna said her life has been exhausting since she started her world tour. She said there isn't a second of her life that isn't taken up looking after her family or thinking of her show - her day is filled with problems of work and family. Someone should tell her, everyone else calls that, "life."Jay Leno
"This world was ever, is now, and ever shall be an ever-living fire, with measures of its kindling and measures going out"-Heraclitus
"A thief believes everybody steals." -E.W. Howe
"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for." - Dag Hammarskjold
By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing; but instead of nonchalantly promenading our own corruption, we exude our sweat and grow winded upon the fetid air. - E. M. Cioran (tr. Richard Howard)
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. - Bertrand Russell
Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and tranistory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together. -George Santayana
"There is nothing permanent except change." Heraclitus
"The world's a scene of changes." Abraham Cowley
For what wears out the life of mortal men?
'Tis that from change to change their being rolls;
'Tis that repeated shocks, again, again,
Exhaust the energy of strongest souls
And numb the elastic powers." Matthew Arnold
His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. ~J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, referring to The Last Homely House
The beginning is the most important part of the work. Plato, The Republic. Book II. 377B
"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the wise cannot see all ends." -Gandalf the Grey (J.R.R. Tolkien)
"Life is eternal, and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight." -Anonymous
“We do not know very much of the future except that from generation to generation the same things happen again and again.” -Anonymous
"For the gentle wind does move / Silently, invisibly" -Blake
"We all must find the place on earth that belong to, or we are lost forever with a incomplete life”
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. - Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it. - James Gibbons Huneker
It is not a way of life that a wise man proposes, but a way around life. - Christopher Spranger, The Effort To Fall
The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others. -Russell Edson
Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself. - George Santayana
"We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it." --Eeyore
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet. -- T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
And though they shine, some more, some less, when they are out of his sight, yet in his presence they shine no more than the stars in the presence of the sun. --Hobbes, Leviathan
...when all else fails, duck. It's not practical, but it can be momentarily comforting. - UNIT Procedures Manual, Zen Division.
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. -- Chinese Proverb
The best things in life are usually already taken.
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.- Douglas Adams
The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man. - Friedrich Nietzsche
We're giving you a new chance at life, and an opportunity to screw it up in a new and original way. --Holly, "Red Dwarf"
Don't Wait For Your Ship To Come In, Torpedo It, Then Board It.
"The night is too dark, to walk with your eyes closed." --Peter Sintic
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. -Emily Dickinson
To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to return step by step to imbecility, from the time of lisping to that of doting; to live among knaves and charlatans of all kinds; to die between one man who takes your pulse and another who troubles your head; never to know where you come from, why you come and where you are going! That is what is called the most important gift of our parents and nature. Life. -Denis Diderot
Delerium: What’s the name for the word for things not being the same always. You know. I’m sure there is one… There must be a word for it… the thing that lets you know time is happening. Is there a word?
Dream: Change.
Delerium: Oh. I was afraid of that.
~Neil Gaiman (Sandman: Brief Lives)
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -Sydney Smith
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