Favorite Quotes
"O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life? Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse."
-Walt Whitman
"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
I am large, I contain multitudes."
-Walt Whitman
"I go to seek a great perhaps."
-Francois Rabelais
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
-Helen Keller
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
-Henry David Thoreau
"I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream."
-Vincent Van Gogh
“God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I am wiser than my age so I plagiarize my future self.”
-George Watsky
“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.”
-Henry David Thoreau
“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
-Marcus Aurelius
Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
-Marcus Aurelius
What we do now echoes in eternity.
-Marcus Aurelius
“Under the comb
the tangle and the straight path
are the same.”
-Heraclitus
“Live to the point of tears”
-Albert Camus
“I rebel; therefore I exist.”
-Albert Camus
“It is better to burn than to disappear”
-Albert Camus
“If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.”
-Albert Camus
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
-Alan Watts
“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
-Alan Watts
“If you make where you are going more important than where you are, there may be no point in going.”
-Alan Watts
“You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.”
-Alan Watts
“You’re a defiant act of creation. You’re a whole solar system pretending to be a person.”
-Elisabeth Hewer
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
-David Hume
“Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and it’s spectacular.”
-Joseph Campbell
“In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.”
-Bertolt Brecht
“I killed a plant once because I gave it too much water. Lord, I worry that love is violence.”
-José Olivarez
"Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination."
-Voltaire
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
-Lao Tzu
“intimacy is being seen and seen some more and shown there is no weariness in the witnessing of you”
-Shakayla Williams
“How lucky we are to have nothing expected of us.”
-Savannah Brown
“My God, my God, whose performance am I watching? How many people am I? Who am I? What is this space between myself and myself?”
-Fernando Pessoa
"What does the sentence "If you eat this fruit you will die" mean for Eve who is in a place where there is no death?"
-Hélène Cixous,
"If you're happy in a dream...does that count? The happiness-does it count?"
-Arundhati Rov.
“Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”
-Homer, The Iliad
“And that I did not give to anyone the responsibility for my life. It is mine. I made it. And can do what I want to with it. Live it. Give it back, someday, without bitter-ness, to the wild and weedy dunes.”
-Mary Oliver
“You lived
two decades
with nothing but your spine holding you up.
The way light does not care if shadows follow
you do not have to be wanted
to prove you are real.”
-Natalie Wee
"if nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do."
-Joss Whedon
"Why do you weep?
Did you think I was immortal?"
-Louis XIV
“A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we're human?" Pointless, really... "Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question.”
-Neil Gaiman
“I'm forever a child looking out my window at the night sky
Thinking one day I'lI touch the world with bare hands
Even if it burns.”
-Tracy K Smith
“they will hook me up to a polygraph and ask me if I love you and I will say no but the needle will jump and sputter exactly how you laugh”
-Anonymous
“And when I turned to face grief, I saw that it was just love in a heavy coat.”
-Shannon Barry
“Come on, dance with me. The earth is spinning. We just can’t stand on it.”
-Dino Ahmetovic
“God said:
GOD MADE YOU.
GOD DOES NOT CARE IF YOU ARE "GUILTY" OR NOT.
I said:
I CARE IF I AM GUILTY! I CARE IF I AM GUILTY!... God was silent.
Everything was SILENT.”
-Frank Bidart
“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it”
-David Foster Wallace
“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”
-Jonathan Safran Foer
“How do we forgive ourselves for all of the things we did not become?”
-Doc Luben
“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
-Haruki Murakami
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
-Maya Angelou
“In the deepening spring of May, I had no choice but to recognize the trembling of my heart.”
-Haruki Murakami
“You wouldn’t believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it.”
-Franz Kafka
"The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang best."
-Henry Van Dyke
“November 2. Vague Hope, vague confidence”
-Diary of Franz Kafka
“thinking about how milk jugs are so perfectly designed; not a bit of wasted space. the handle is part of the container as well and you can clearly see how much of the liquid is left. genius. im thinking of eating the mushroom growing in my frontyard whole. if even one person is nice to me today i will kiss them on the lips”
-Anonymous
“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
- Franz Kafka
“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory”
- Louise Glück
"Love is never wasted,
For its value does not rest upon reciprocity."
- C.S. Lewis
“To be alive: not just the carcass
But the spark.
That's crudely put, but...
If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?”
- Gregory Orr
"The number of hours we have together is actually not so large. Please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. Please forget your scarf in my life and come back later for it."
- Mikko Harvey
“On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”
- Hunter S. Thompson
“It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live”
- Victor Hugo