Quotes
“Once you label me, you negate me.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“One thing I always say is sometime you need time to work through the weird. And then it'll work out. Or not. The heart do what it do, and don't what it don't.”
— Soren, Dragon Prince
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
— Frank Herbert, Dune
“If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.”
— W.C. Fields
“It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies, if the poet did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“We are the sum of all the decisions that we make, and all the decisions that are made for us.”
— Chaos (Hades)
“We only see two things in people, what we want to see, and what they show us.”
— Harry Morgan (Dexter)
“No matter how close two people are, an infinite distance separates them.”
— Harry Morgan (Dexter)
“Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”
— Euripides, Medea
“With great power comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
— Nico Di Angelo
“Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore, it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.”
— Sherlock Holmes
“There are three great untruths: (1) "What doesn't kill you makes you weaker". (2) "Always trust your feelings". (3) "Life is a battle between good people and evil people". These three misinformed dogmas leave us unprepared to thrive.”
— Jonathan Haidt
“Don't mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me.”
— Al Capone
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
— Peter Drucker
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”
— William Shakespeare
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
— Nelson Mandela
“The ranking of art is a fool's errand.”
— Ari Aster
“The best things in life are on the other side of fear.”
— William Smith
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
— Charles Bukowski
“Good is better than evil because it's nicer.”
— Li'l Abner
“When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.”
— Edward Snowden
“Disagreement is not oppression. Argument is not assault. Words – even provocative or repugnant ones – are not violence. The answer to speech we do not like is more speech.”
— Douglas Murray
“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.”
— Jim Carrey
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it Fate.”
— Carl Jung
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
— John F. Kennedy
“You don't need better ideas to get started. You need to get started to have better ideas.”
— Internet
“I must be alone a great deal. What I accomplished was only the result of being alone.”
— Franz Kafka
“The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.”
— Captain Jack Sparrow
“It's not about the cards you're dealt but how you play them.”
— Randy Pausch
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
— Upton Sinclair
“Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.”
— Joseph Stalin
“Don't destroy what you hate, save what you love.”
— Rose Tico
“That which we need the most will be found where we least want to look.”
— Carl Jung
“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
— Lao Tzu
“Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.”
— Sophocles
“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”
— Wayne Gretzky
“Anger is a potent spice; a bit wakes you up, a lot dulls your senses.”
— Harry Beltik (Queen's Gambit)
“Everyone wants to build, no one wants to maintain.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“A prisoner is one who has staked everything on a belief, a proclivity most apparent in the greatest of champions.”
— Prisoner's Chain (Dark Souls 3)
“See beauty where others see garbage. I'd rather be the person who sees beauty than the person who sees garbage.”
— Michael Malice
“Once you realize what a joke everything is, the only thing that makes sense is being a comedian.”
— Edward Blake (Watchmen)
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
— Friedrich Nietzche
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
— Dr Seuss
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
— Douglas Adams
“I'm not upset that you lied to me. I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
— Friedrich Nietzche
“We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are.”
— Anais Nin
“None but ourselves can free our minds.”
— Bob Marley
“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing" said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you."”
— A.A Milne, the House at Pooh Corner
“Years of love have been forgotten in the hatred of a minute.”
— Edgar Allen Poe
“Men will never be free until the last king is strangled by the entrails of the last priest.”
— Denis Diderot
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.”
— Margaret Mead
“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
— Maya Angelou
“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”
— Michael Scott
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.”
— Thomas Edison
“The saddest thing I ever did see, was a woodpecker peckin' at a plastic tree. He looks at me, and "Friend," says he, "Things ain't as sweet as they used to be."”
— Shel Silverstein
“Emotions are not rational, they should not be instructions for action.”
— Adam Savage
“I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do.”
— Charlie Munger
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”
— Bob Marley
“My capacity for happiness, you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.”
— Douglas Adams
“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
— E.E. Cummins
“The more one has, the more one wants, since satisfactions received only stimulate instead of filling needs.”
— Durkheim
“The greatest crimes issue from a desire for excess and not from necessity.”
— Aristotle
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
— Mark Twain
“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
— Aristotle
“Why are we still here, just to suffer?”
— Kazuhira Miller (Metal Gear Solid V)
“The human race is flammable.”
— AI
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.”
— Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park)
“Being alive is great, you can eat at Denny's, you can wear a hat whenever you want to, it's wonderful.”
— Norm Macdonald
“Life is a sum of all our choices.”
— Albert Camus
“No matter how morally righteous you think your core values are, if willingness to change is not one of them you are just as bad as those you claim to hate.”
— Penelope
“What is the purpose of life? To evolve.”
— Internet
“Every criticism, judgement, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.”
— Marshall Rosenberg
“The gates of hell are locked from the inside.”
— C.S. Lewis
“What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.”
— Conan the Barbarian
“When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is composed of good people who have something important to say.”
— Jonathan Haidt
“All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.”
— Proverb