Quotes 02
"The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor." - Albert Camus
"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence." ~ Joseph Roux
"Sometimes there are no right decisions; only ones you can live with. And sometimes there isn’t even that." ~ Wild Heart (Walk the Thin Blue Line) by badacts
"So, the 'wisdom' you offer from the abundance of your experience is that ignorance is inevitable?" ~ Hisoka from Unspoiled by forthright
"The wise steer the unwise with choices" ~ Hisoka from Unspoiled by forthright
"Human nature compells us to blame someone, because we ourselves don't like accepting the fact that we aren't perfect."
"Hit me. Hit me because it won't change who I am."-Kurt, Glee
"If we can love, we can dream. Humans aren't strong enough to live without their dreams."- Seishiro
"People say that they want to be free as a bird...is it because they can fly? But what happens if a bird gets lost flying above the sea and needs to rest? Then they may regret having wings in the first place."-Genjo Sanzo, Saiyuki
"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before." - Mae West
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tell's you it's going to be a butterfly."- R. Buckminster Fuller
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends."- J. K. Rowling
"I wish craziness and foolishness and maddness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories. Which finally means, may you be in love for the next 20, 000 days, and out of that love, remake a world."- Ray Bradbury
"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing, all-powerful God, who creates faulty humans, and then blames us for his mistakes."- Gene Roddenberry
The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not. ~Emanuel Lasker
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that ís love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting. ~ Sylvester Stallone
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God you learn. - C.S. Lewis
[Prosperity] knits a man to the world. He thinks he's 'finding his place in it,' while really it is finding its place in him. - C.S. Lewis
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. - C.S. Lewis
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended -- civilizations are built up -- excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down. - C.S. Lewis
War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. - C.S. Lewis
'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'. - C.S. Lewis
What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods? The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artifically kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses? -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. ~ C.S. Lewis
It is easy to think the State has a lot of different objects -- military, political, economic, and what not. But in a way things are much simpler than that. The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden -- that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time. ~ C.S. Lewis
Not to be, but to seem, virtuous -- it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery. ~ C.S. Lewis
For who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed? ~ C.S. Lewis
A little lie is like a little pregnancy: it doesn't take long before everyone knows. ~ C.S. Lewis
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? - John Keats
"The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves." -William Penn
"Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash." - Jerry Seinfeld
"The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity." - Voltaire
"At a train station the train stops. At a bus station the bus stops. At my desk is a work station…I think you can figure out the rest."
"Me and my wife are inseparable. Sometimes, it takes three or four people to pull us apart."
Here's one they just made up: "near miss". When two planes almost collide, they call it a near miss. It's a near hit. A collision is a near miss." -- George Carlin
“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.” ~ Dag Hammarskjold
The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck
Love is impertinent.
It encroaches the mind
without invitation,
makes itself at home
like a familiar neighbour,
lives on your generosity
of thought,
in time, like a squatter,
takes permanent residence
and is impossible to remove.
It cannot be resolved
by mental action, as
possession is complete
ownership.
~ Sally Plumb
"You need this relationship but if there's no sex involved, people act like it's not a legitimate relationship." ~ Bradford Cox
"I think love and sex are separate and only vaguely similar. Like the word bear and the word bare. You can get in trouble mistaking one for the other." - Harlan Ellison
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love." - Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Vol 9
“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.” ~ Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Vol 9
“We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.” ~ Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Vol 9
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will themselves not be realized." ~ Daniel Burnham
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius." ~ Doyle, Holmes series - The Valley of Fear
"You know a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick." ~ Doyle, Holmes series - A Study in Scarlet
"A complex mind. All great criminals have that." ~ Doyle, Holmes series - The Adventure of the Illustrious Client
"The imaginative transformation at the heart of magic is recognition, not creation." ~ Susan Palwick
"The real secret of magic lies in the performance." ~ David Copperfield
"It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it." ~ Doyle, Holmes series - A Study in Scarlet
“For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.” - Stuart Chase
“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” - Oscar Wilde
“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.” - Oscar Wilde
“Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late” - Benjamin Franklin
“The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.” - Rabindranath
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.” - Dale Carnegie
“The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.” - Arthur C. Clarke
“While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die -- whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness” - Gilda Radner
“The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.” - Heywood C. Broun
“Comedy is tragedy - plus time” - Carol Burnett
“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.” - Robert F. Kennedy
“It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.” - Joyce Cary
“There are no tragedies, just facts not recognized in time.” - William D. Montapert
“The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.” - Jonas Salk
“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.” - Oscar Wilde
“Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective." - Arnold Beisser
“What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.” - William D. Howells
“The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.” - Horace Walpole
"It is well that war is so terrible lest we grow too fond of it." - Robert E. Lee
"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence." ~ Joseph Roux
"Sometimes there are no right decisions; only ones you can live with. And sometimes there isn’t even that." ~ Wild Heart (Walk the Thin Blue Line) by badacts
"So, the 'wisdom' you offer from the abundance of your experience is that ignorance is inevitable?" ~ Hisoka from Unspoiled by forthright
"The wise steer the unwise with choices" ~ Hisoka from Unspoiled by forthright
"Human nature compells us to blame someone, because we ourselves don't like accepting the fact that we aren't perfect."
"Hit me. Hit me because it won't change who I am."-Kurt, Glee
"If we can love, we can dream. Humans aren't strong enough to live without their dreams."- Seishiro
"People say that they want to be free as a bird...is it because they can fly? But what happens if a bird gets lost flying above the sea and needs to rest? Then they may regret having wings in the first place."-Genjo Sanzo, Saiyuki
"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before." - Mae West
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tell's you it's going to be a butterfly."- R. Buckminster Fuller
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends."- J. K. Rowling
"I wish craziness and foolishness and maddness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories. Which finally means, may you be in love for the next 20, 000 days, and out of that love, remake a world."- Ray Bradbury
"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing, all-powerful God, who creates faulty humans, and then blames us for his mistakes."- Gene Roddenberry
The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not. ~Emanuel Lasker
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that ís love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting. ~ Sylvester Stallone
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God you learn. - C.S. Lewis
[Prosperity] knits a man to the world. He thinks he's 'finding his place in it,' while really it is finding its place in him. - C.S. Lewis
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. - C.S. Lewis
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended -- civilizations are built up -- excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down. - C.S. Lewis
War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. - C.S. Lewis
'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'. - C.S. Lewis
What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods? The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artifically kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses? -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. ~ C.S. Lewis
It is easy to think the State has a lot of different objects -- military, political, economic, and what not. But in a way things are much simpler than that. The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden -- that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time. ~ C.S. Lewis
Not to be, but to seem, virtuous -- it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery. ~ C.S. Lewis
For who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed? ~ C.S. Lewis
A little lie is like a little pregnancy: it doesn't take long before everyone knows. ~ C.S. Lewis
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? - John Keats
"The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves." -William Penn
"Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash." - Jerry Seinfeld
"The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity." - Voltaire
"At a train station the train stops. At a bus station the bus stops. At my desk is a work station…I think you can figure out the rest."
"Me and my wife are inseparable. Sometimes, it takes three or four people to pull us apart."
Here's one they just made up: "near miss". When two planes almost collide, they call it a near miss. It's a near hit. A collision is a near miss." -- George Carlin
“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.” ~ Dag Hammarskjold
The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck
Love is impertinent.
It encroaches the mind
without invitation,
makes itself at home
like a familiar neighbour,
lives on your generosity
of thought,
in time, like a squatter,
takes permanent residence
and is impossible to remove.
It cannot be resolved
by mental action, as
possession is complete
ownership.
~ Sally Plumb
"You need this relationship but if there's no sex involved, people act like it's not a legitimate relationship." ~ Bradford Cox
"I think love and sex are separate and only vaguely similar. Like the word bear and the word bare. You can get in trouble mistaking one for the other." - Harlan Ellison
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love." - Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Vol 9
“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.” ~ Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Vol 9
“We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.” ~ Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Vol 9
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will themselves not be realized." ~ Daniel Burnham
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius." ~ Doyle, Holmes series - The Valley of Fear
"You know a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick." ~ Doyle, Holmes series - A Study in Scarlet
"A complex mind. All great criminals have that." ~ Doyle, Holmes series - The Adventure of the Illustrious Client
"The imaginative transformation at the heart of magic is recognition, not creation." ~ Susan Palwick
"The real secret of magic lies in the performance." ~ David Copperfield
"It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it." ~ Doyle, Holmes series - A Study in Scarlet
“For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.” - Stuart Chase
“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” - Oscar Wilde
“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.” - Oscar Wilde
“Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late” - Benjamin Franklin
“The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.” - Rabindranath
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.” - Dale Carnegie
“The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.” - Arthur C. Clarke
“While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die -- whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness” - Gilda Radner
“The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.” - Heywood C. Broun
“Comedy is tragedy - plus time” - Carol Burnett
“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.” - Robert F. Kennedy
“It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.” - Joyce Cary
“There are no tragedies, just facts not recognized in time.” - William D. Montapert
“The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.” - Jonas Salk
“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.” - Oscar Wilde
“Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective." - Arnold Beisser
“What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.” - William D. Howells
“The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.” - Horace Walpole
"It is well that war is so terrible lest we grow too fond of it." - Robert E. Lee