You’re still the one I run to, the one that I belong to. You’re still the one I want for life.
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.
To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.
Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where execution is not a potential punishment and consume more time from judges, public defenders, and other legal personnel.
No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
God created philosophy for all the intellects that got bored of hearing the same bible stories every Sunday.
A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They’ll not be able to once you lop off their heads.
Philosophy is a root of science. Science is a branch of a philosophical tree.
We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing, a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
Now I’m not blaming anything on her—I take full responsibility for my own actions— but it was Annette’s betrayal that began my slow spin downward to insanity.
I’m saying that I’m a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me that you’re okay with that, because it’s who I am, and you’re what I need.
Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it’s inconvenient for you.
If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
One has to seek out pleasurable sensations, in the absence of which blandness comes naturally. The upshot of this is that we must continually work at keeping suffering (including tedium) at bay, and we can do so only imperfectly. Dissatisfaction does and must pervade life. There are moments, perhaps even periods, of satisfaction, but they occur against a background of dissatisfied striving.
We live in deeds not years In thoughts not breaths In feelings not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.
Personally, I like a chocolate-covered sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy every color I see – the whole spectrum. A billion or so flavors, none of them quite the same, and a sky to slowly suck on. It takes the edge off the stress. It helps me relax.
I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal companions. Yet I have but the sound of my scythe when it harvests, my whistling arrows, my galloping horse. Always the sound of the same wave eating away at the world
I can’t believe he didn’t have the dignity and presence of mind just to get drunk and pass out in some gutter, said Jace. I must say, I’m disappointed in the little fellow.
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Why did he have to be so gorgeous? Why did he have to stand so close, and why did I still love him so much?
If you can overcome love, you can overcome fear. If you can overcome fear, you can overcome death.
Do you know why hurricanes have names instead of numbers? To keep the killing personal. No one cares about a bunch of people killed by a number. ‘200 Dead as Number Three Slams Ashore’ is not nearly as interesting a headline as ‘Charlie kills 200.’ Death is much more satisfying and entertaining if you personalize it.Me, I’m still waitin’ for Hurricane Ed. Old Ed wouldn’t hurt ya, would he? Sounds kinda friendly. ‘Hell no, we ain’t evacuatin’. Ed’s comin’!
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
A little muzhik was working on the railroad, mumbling in his beard. And the candle by which she had read the book that was filled with fears, with deceptions, with anguish, and with evil, flared up with greater brightness than she had ever known, revealing to her all that before was in darkness, then flickered, grew faint, and went out forever.
In the last moment of his life, he turned his fading flame of life into a huge fire that enveloped the world. I’ve never laughed more than on that day…!! I’ve never cried more than on that day… I’ve never drank more either..!! He was our captain… and he was a magnificent man…!!!
And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me.
Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I’d rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I’d rather have a no, then nothing. I’d forgotten that about myself.
Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.
What will I be doing in twenty years’ time? I’ll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?
Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?
Honestly, just all the love and respect from the fans, that’s always the biggest thing that puts a smile on my face.
IT’S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY’RE NOT /MEANT/ TO BE SAFE.
I might have known,” said Eeyore. “After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said ‘Bother!’. The Social Round. Always something going on.
Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one’s door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
Suicide is an attack on society–an attack on its omnipotence, on its denial of death, and on its own despair.
HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)
I g-g-guess…I’m dead? she heard her own voice call out, strangely high-pitched and thin.For a long time, she heard nothing else. And then:Hi, Dead. I’m Dan.
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
There’s no point in wishing. We can’t change anything about the past. We can only remember. We can only move forward.
Nox didn’t say a word. He waited, counting the seconds in his mind. Sometimes you counted bullets and sometimes you counted time. Either one could kill you.
True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.
I don’t think so, said the captain. Their ship is clearly outfitted with weapons systems that it did not have when it left Terrene over 600 years ago. And they are pointed directly at us.
The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.
For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
My life was going to flash before my eyes, but it decided to hide behind my eyes and quake with terror instead.
Accidental sex. He made it sound like I fell down, and there just happened to be an erection in the way.