Quotes

[Gentleman]

"Sadness comforts me when happiness can't."

"Fight the devil and become the devil."

 

[almost_dead]

"I like big butts and I can not lie" - Gautam Buddha

 

[Wayfaerer]

"You can believe any quote you read on the internet as long as it has a famous person's name attached to it" - Abraham Lincoln, 1864

 

[Gentleman]

"Don't judge my choices without understanding my reasons."

"You are not a bad person for the ways you tried to kill your sadness"

 

[Gentleman]

"There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds."

 

[Amumu]

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

 

[Winona [restored]]

"A false hope gives only false comfort." - Gene Brewer "K-PAX"

 

[Wisdom3_1-9]

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.
- Dante, The Divine Comedy

 

[catalepsy]

"I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter."
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

Never heard of the guy, but I like him already.

 

[Sensei]

"Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality."
― Shunryu Suzuki

 

[Gentleman]

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."

 

[foxdie]

"Everybody lies but it doesn't matter because nobody listens"

 

[XYZ]

"Everybody lies but it doesn't matter because nobody listens"

This sounds like something Gregory House would say. Love it!

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

"Don't we already have a quotes thread somewhere else?"

-Confucius circa 1969

 

[Gentleman]

"Better to live a day as a lion than 100yrs as a sheep."
"The lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of the sheep."

 

[esse_est_percipi]

"Fight the devil and become the devil."

who said that?
Sounds like nietzsche's " Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster"

 

[Gentleman]

who said that?
Sounds like nietzsche's " Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster"

Nietzsche's. Mine is just a variation.

 

[Gentleman]

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."

 

[Gentleman]

"The sun kept on with its slipping away, and I thought how many small good things in the world might be resting on the shoulders of something terrible."

 

[Caspers]

My favourite is 'There's a point at which anyone will beg for death' -The Countess page 339 The Invisible Library's The Mortal World

 

[Dead beat dad]

'We make a living from what we get. We make a life from what we give'

... Somewhat ironic to put this here I think

DBD

 

[Sprite_Geist]

"Suicide is an extreme vote of no confidence in a society that doesn't work." - Sharif Abdullah

"The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms." - Morpheus (Deux Ex, 2000)

 

[Gentleman]

"There's ignorance the lack of education to do something, and then there's apathy the lack of motivation to do something."
Gentleman

 

[WitheringAway]

"This too, shall pass"

 

[Gentleman]

"I see humans but no humanity"

 

[ecmnesia]

"not all those who wander are lost" - J. R. R. Tolkien

"people live to save themselves" - Bungou Stray dogs

"if look back I'm lost" - Daenerys (GOT)

"obedience is a worse substitute for morality than margarine is for butter" - don't know who said this

 

[Wisdom3_1-9]

"This lovely light, it lights not me; all loveliness is anguish to me, since I can ne'er enjoy. Gifted with the high perception, I lack the low, enjoying power; damned, most subtly and most malignantly! damned in the midst of Paradise! Good night-good night!"
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Chapter 37 ("Sunset")

 

[mahakaliSS_MahaDurga]

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[mahakaliSS_MahaDurga]

There seems to be an inborn drive in all human beings not to live in a steady emotional state, which would suggest that such a state is not tolerable to most people. Why else would someone succumb to the attractions of romantic love more than once? Didn't they learn their lesson the first time or the tenth time or the twentieth time? And it's the same old lesson: everything in this life—I repeat, everything—is more trouble than it's worth. And simply being alive is the basic trouble. This is something that is more recognized in Eastern societies than in the West. There's a minor tradition in Greek philosophy that instructs us to seek a state of equanimity rather than one of ecstasy, but it never really caught on for obvious reasons. Buddhism advises its practitioners not to seek highs or lows but to follow a middle path to personal salvation from the painful cravings of the average sensual life, which is why it was pretty much reviled by the masses and mutated into forms more suited to human drives and desires. It seems evident that very few people can simply sit still. Children spin in circles until they collapse with dizziness.

Thomas Ligotti

 

[mahakaliSS_MahaDurga]

Love is harder to give up than life.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline