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They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. - Arthur Schopenhauer

“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.”
― William Arthur Ward

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - H. L. Mencken

"Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He. - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you. - C.G. Jung

“Being soulful makes you desire depth. You look for depth in everything and everyone. You look for meaning in things that you encounter. Even when you meet someone for the first time you look for their soul. You are not fascinated by shine and sparkle. But you are fascinated by rawness and strength. Their 'soul' that they have held on to and not yet abandoned to the world!”
-Avijeet Das

I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men. - B. F. Skinner

“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

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
― Franz Kafka

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows. - Mason Cooley

“Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities. - Herman Melville

“I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.”
― Nadezhda Mandelstam

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. - Jean Giraudoux

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust. - Mahatma Gandhi

“Halloween is a celebration of the inversion of reality and a necessary Gothic hat-tip to the darker aspects of life, death and ourselves.” — Stewart Stafford

The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything. - Matthew Perry (RIP)

"Dare to dream! If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true, your mind would not have the capacity to conjure such ideas in the first place. There is no limitation on what you can potentially achieve, except for the limitation you choose to impose on your own imagination. What you believe to be possible will always come to pass - to the extent that you deem it possible. It really is as simple as that.”
- Anthon St. Maarten

We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe. - Charles R. Swindoll

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
― George Orwell, 1984

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. - William Congreve

“Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,—
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.”
― William Shakespeare

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void. - Jean Rostand

"The wisest men follow their own direction.”
-Euripides

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. - Mason Cooley

Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy its essence. Religion, then, is mysticism in which the mystical has been killed. Or, at least diminished.
Tom Robbins

My different personalities leave me in peace now. - Anna Freud

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
― Aldous Huxley

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein

“I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Unbeing dead isn't being alive. - e. e. cummings

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. - Henry David Thoreau

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task. - Richard P. Feynman

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”-George Bernard Shaw

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain