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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. - Oscar Wilde
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― douglas adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. - Diogenes
"Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think."
Thomas A. Edison
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. - Otto von Bismarck
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung
Don’t judge me, you cannot handle half of what I’ve survived. – The Joker
"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all."
Emily Dickinson
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. - Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.”
― Anaïs Nin
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation. - Albert Schweitzer
"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
-Kahlil Gibran
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. - Thomas Szasz
“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there. - Henry James
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants. - Marquis de Sade
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman
All generalizations are false, including this one. - Mark Twain
“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. - Robert A. Heinlein
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. - Winston Churchill
There is an undercurrent of savagery in the human psyche. Anyone who forgets this and doesn't guard against it risks being swept away by it. ~ Lance Conrad
One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening. - Franklin P. Jones
“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. - Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature. - Francis Ford Coppola
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough. - James Thurber
“Have big dreams but focus only on what you can control: your own thoughts, words, and actions. This was Gandhi’s way … in the words of Buddhist poet Gary Snyder, our job is to move the world a millionth of an inch.” – Eboo Patel
It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something. - Anthony Trollope
“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
― Ludwig van Beethoven
Hollow halo
(Can you hear them calling?)
You'll never
You'll never leave this world alone, if I
Become a martyr to the stars
Become a model to the same
- quote/ lyrics from Change Part 2 by: Karnivool
“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now. - Ray Bradbury
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. - Albert Einstein
“My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant
“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. - Immanuel Kant
"Getting old, that's earned Ben"
-Maggie from movie, The Guardian-
“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”
― George Carlin