Quotes you like

[Foresight]

I know quotes can be too simple for life's bigger problems, but sometimes a tiny bit of wisdom hits me good. I saw one I liked today that said If you don't sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice.

That gets me good because I don't like stepping out of my comfort zone. My resistance to sacrificing comfort is leaving me in the same position I don't want to be in. I'm sacrificing my aspirations for comfort and I'm now trying to do the opposite.

Do you have any quotes that you like?

 

[Crazy4u]

"Strong people don't put others down, they lift them up"

this has been my favorite quote for years

second fav:

 

[just_wanna_die]

I like this quote.

Sums up what I could not put into words when I first discovered it:


"Life was not a valuable gift, but death was.
Life was a fever-dream made up of joys embittered by sorrows, pleasure poisoned by pain;
a dream that was a nightmare-confusion of spasmodic and fleeting delights, ecstasies,
exultations, happinesses, interspersed with long-drawn miseries, griefs, perils, horrors,
disappointments, defeats, humiliations, and despairs -- the heaviest curse devisable by
divine ingenuity; but death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the
bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man's
best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free."

~Letters from the Earth, Mark Twain (1909)

 

[lostautist]

"Too weird to live, too rare to die." Hunter S Thompson

 

[Slaanesh]

"I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't" - Albert Camus.

 

[BeansOfRequirement]

"It's too dark, I can't hear you."

 

[Mixo]

"Hell is other people." -Jean-Paul Sartre

 

[Braindead Atheist]

"suicide is the only way. Every bar is to high. Fake a smile; keep a friend. Life is a waste, death is the end." -me

 

[TheAmazingCriswell]

"Hell is other people." -Jean-Paul Sartre

As Sartre explained himself:

Mais « l'enfer c'est les autres » a été toujours mal compris. On a cru que je voulais dire par là que nos rapports avec les autres étaient toujours empoisonnés, que c'était toujours des rapports infernaux. Or, c'est tout autre chose que je veux dire. Je veux dire que si les rapports avec autrui sont tordus, viciés, alors l'autre ne peut être que l'enfer. Pourquoi ? Parce que les autres sont, au fond, ce qu'il y a de plus important en nous-mêmes, pour notre propre connaissance de nous-mêmes. Quand nous pensons sur nous, quand nous essayons de nous connaître, au fond nous usons des connaissances que les autres ont déjà sur nous, nous nous jugeons avec les moyens que les autres ont — nous ont donnés — de nous juger. Quoi que je dise sur moi, toujours le jugement d'autrui entre dedans. Quoi que je sente de moi, le jugement d'autrui entre dedans. Ce qui veut dire que, si mes rapports sont mauvais, je me mets dans la totale dépendance d'autrui et alors, en effet, je suis en enfer. Et il existe une quantité de gens dans le monde qui sont en enfer parce qu'ils dépendent trop du jugement d'autrui. Mais cela ne veut nullement dire qu'on ne puisse avoir d'autres rapports avec les autres ; ça marque simplement l'importance capitale de tous les autres pour chacun de nous.

Translation:
But "Hell is other people" was always misunderstood. People thought I meant that our relationships with others were always poisoned, that they were always hellish relationships. But I mean something quite different. I mean that if the relationships with others are twisted, vitiated, then the other can only be hell. Why is that? Other people are, fundamentally, the most important thing in ourselves, for our own knowledge of ourselves. When we think about ourselves, when we try to know ourselves, basically we use the knowledge that others already have about us, we judge ourselves with the means that others have - have given us - to judge us. Whatever I say about myself, the judgment of others always enters into it. Whatever I feel about myself, the judgment of others enters into it. Which means that, if my relationships are bad, I put myself in the total dependence of others and then, indeed, I am in hell. And there are plenty of people in the world who are in hell because they depend too much on the judgment of others. But that doesn't mean that we can't have other relationships with others; it just marks the central importance of all others to each of us.

 

[LionsTigersAndBears]

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Mark Twain

 

[Mixo]

"I don't hate [people]...I just feel better when they're not around." -Bukowski

 

[gottago222]

"the 3rd dimension is ghetto" - me

 

[WoAiGou]

I was walking along the bank of a stream when I saw a mother otter with her cubs, a very endearing sight, I'm sure you'll agree. And even as I watched, the mother otter dived into the water and came up with a plump salmon, which she subdued and dragged onto a half submerged log. As she ate it, while of course it was still alive, the body split and I remember to this day the sweet pinkness of its roes as they spilled out, much to the delight of the baby otters, who scrambled over themselves to feed on the delicacy. One of nature's wonders, gentlemen. Mother and children dining upon mother and children. And that is when I first learned about evil. It is built into the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.

Terry Pratchett

 

[Mixo]

"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing." - Audre Lorde

 

[neitherherenorthere]

"...until the day when god deigns to unveil the future to mankind, all human wisdom is contained in these two words: 'wait' and 'hope'" - Alexandre Dumas, "The Count of Monte Cristo"

 

[Nigh]

"Everyone's mad here". It's from Alice in Wonderland, but I think it applies to life.

 

[WrongPlaceWrongTime]

"Suicide is the cowards way out" -some NPC pro-lifer

 

[Ringo]

"So you mean to say they've taken what we thought we think and make us think we thought our thoughts we've been thinking our thoughts we think we thought? I think…"

-Patrick Star, September 17, 1999.

 

[Gordy99]

"It is what it is"

 

[FuneralCry]

My favourite quote is 'Death must be so beautiful, to lie in the soft brown earth with the grasses waving above ones head, and listen to silence, to have no yesterday and no tomorrow. To forget time, forgive life and be at peace', - Oscar Wilde.

 

[Live Free or Die]

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings" – Socrates.


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



Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Marcus Aurelius

 

[Enigmatic Sailor]

"Piss, shit, and boogies" -- Sincerely, Elusive Phantom

 

[Luchs]

"For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice."

"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools."

 

[Under The Graveyard]

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside of us while we live.

 

[Luchs]

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside of us while we live.

I don't quite see the difference.

 

[TheBestUsernameEver]

"If you want to be happy, don't expect anything from anyone"
- Unknown

 

[LONE WOLF.]

Have you ever danced with the devil under the pale moon light.

 

[settheory]

Posting this again

 

[mistvissione11e]

No, the man said, looking past him with his empty gaze, the realm of the dead isn't anything. But to those who have been there, nothing else is anything either.

Pär Lagerkvist, Barabbas


For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten- Bible

 

[Wisdom3_1-9]

My mom was an English teacher for 20+ years before she switched to academia to teach teachers. She got me reading Shakespeare when I was 9. This quote from the opening scene of Richard II has been with me the last couple of days.

The purest treasure mortal times afford
Is spotless reputation; that away
Men are but gilded loan or painted clay...
Mine honour is my life; both grow in one;
Take honour from me, and my life is done.