This is just a collection of quotes that I think sound cool. Some are related to this site, some aren't. So far, most of these quotes have been taken directly from here (some of my favorties are near the bottom), but the newest ones are from other sources.

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact-
not to be solved, but to be coped with over time- Shimon Peres (taken from the Reader's Digest, 7-01)

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

If who I am is what I have and what I have is lost, the who am I?

The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort; he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Would you tell me please which way I ought to walk from here?
That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, said the Cat.
I don't care much where said Alice.
Then it doesn't matter which way to walk, said the Cat.

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking.

Truth would quickly cease to become stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Immorality = the morality of those who are having a better time.

The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Puritanism = the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Life sucks no matter what, so don't be fooled by location changes.

You laugh because I'm different; I laugh because you're all the same.

Everyone is born original, but so many die as copies.

Every important truth begins as blasphemy.

Dolce Far Niente -- It is sweet to do nothing.

You have to be first, best, or different.

Life is uncertain. Eat desert first.

As soon as you're born you start dying, so you might as well have a good time.

If Truth is a woman, what then?

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses -- but, as a lifestyle, I find it too confining.

Start each day with a smile and get it over with.

If we see a light at the end of the tunnel,

It's the light of the oncoming train.

What fools these mortals be . . .

Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling.

Strange travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.

TRUST NO ONE

Always keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer.

Open yourself to extreme possibilities only when they're the truth.

And a lie . . . is most convincingly hidden between two truths. If the shark stops swimming, it will die. Don't stop swimming.

The truth is an elephant described by three blind men.

Sometimes the only sane response to an insane world is insanity.

Here at the fringes of reason and experience, we can only marvel at how little we understand, what a mystery this world is.

Only the paranoid survive.

I WANT TO BELIEVE

Souls come back together. Different, but always together. Again and again.

Life is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that on one ever asks for.

I have been here before,

When and how, I do not know.

God writes straight with crooked lines.

If I have seen farther than other, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.

Light is time thinking about itself.

Never, never, never give up.

It's never too late to do nothing.

If a man cannot keep pace with his companions, maybe it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him march to the music that he hears.

Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the cause. Sometimes the answer lies in courage.

A free man counts tomorrow and yesterday and both of them are his; hunger and there's no master to feed you, but walk with long steps and no master says go slowly.

Those who have met and loved cannot be parted; if they meet not in this life, they meet in another.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Every once in a while, try being a nonproductive member of society.

You are, when all is done - just what you are.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all ye know one earth, and all ye need to know.

To thine ownself be true ...

Dos't thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

We strain the hardest for things which are almost, but not quite withing our reach.

Wisdom consists not so much of knowing what to do as in knowing what to do next.

It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by relief.

True power is knowing that you can, but you don't.

There is no greater burden than great potential.

There is always an easy solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.

The best way to be boring is to tell everything.

Those who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do.

Some see the glass as half-empty, some see the glass as half full. I see the glass as too big.

Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?

We learn only when it is too late that the marvel is the passing moment.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Don't compromise yourself, you're all you've got.

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream,
And secens of bliss pass as a phantom by?
The transient pleasure as a vision seem,
And yet we think the greatest pain's to die.
How strange it is that man on earth should roam,
And lead a life of woe, but not forsake

His rugged path; nor dare he view alone
His future doom which is but to awake.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

The breath of the morning I keep forgetting. The smell of the warm summer air. I live in a town where you can't smell a thing, you watch your feet for cracks in the pavement. Up above aliens hover making home movies for the folks back home, of all those weird creatures who lock up their spirits, drill holes in themselves and live for their secrets. They're all uptight. I wish they'd swoop down in a country lane, late at night when I'm driving. Take me on board their beautiful ship, show me the world as I'd love to see it. I'd tell all my friends but they'd never believe, they'd think that I'd finally lost it completely. I'd show them the stars and the meaning of life. They'd shut me away.

But I'd be alright. I'm just uptight.

Life can only be understood backward.

There are so many mediocre things in life; love shouldn't be one of them.

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not, none will suffice.

Only in dreams can a man truly be free,

So has it been, so shall it always be.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

There are many kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice.

Better to pass boldly into that other world in the full glory of some passion than to wither away dismally with age.

Life is eternal, but lives are short.

The world breaks everyone.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.

I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Saw things so much clearer

Once you were in my rearview mirror ...

Mundus vult decipi

All the world wants to be decieved

All men are mad in some way or other.

Enough, if something from our hands have power to live, to act, and serve the future hour.

Carmine morte carent
Songs do not die

Non omina possumus omnes
We can't all do everything

Omne ignotum pro magnifico

That which is not known is wonderful
Dos moi pou sto Kai tengen Kineso

Give me a place to stand and I will move the Earth
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light,

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

Damn the age, I will write for antiquity.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Truth is never pure, and rarely simple.

Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology.

Heaven for climate; hell for society.

And then there are those who care not about extraterrestrials, but search for meaning in their fellow human beings. Rare and lucky are those who find it. We may not be alond in the universe, but, in our own way, on earth, we are each alone.

That's the secret of existence. We're all a little mad.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves,

By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word.
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword.

Are you prepared to be free?

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

Life is hard. Its even harder if you're stupid.

If you're looking for friends when you need them it's too late.

It is useless for sheep to pass a resolution in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion.

Life is an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense.

Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

Let us so live life that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Misers aren't much fun to live with. But they make wonderful ancestors.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Things are only impossible until they're not.

All that is not eternal is out of date.

There's no limit to what a person can do or where he or she can go, if he or she doesn't mind who gets the credit.

Pain is inevitable. Misery is a choice.

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.

Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it; ignorance may deride it; malice may distort it; but there it is.

Little people with little minds and little imagination jog through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by.

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the

credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition. Want to make God laugh? Tell Him you've got plans.

The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.

I like my way of doing things better than your way of not doing them.

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only stranger than we suppose, but stranger than we can suppose.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

There are two ways to slide easily through life: To believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

The less men think, the more they talk.

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

Do not worry about what people are thinking about you--for they are not thinking about you. They are wondering what you are thinking about them.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.

Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

A man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for.

If you would not be forgotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing.

We do not write because we want to, we write because we must.

Flattery is alright--if you don't inhale.

The recognition of the truth that we get in the artist's work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. We did not know it before, but the moment it is shown to us, we know that, somehow or other, we had always known it.

Words to deeds cold breath gives.

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

What is hell?... The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

A wise man listening to a fool will learn more than a fool listening to a wise man.

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend.

Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find the bread.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of space of which I am ignorant, and which knows me not, I am frightened, and am astonished being here rather than there, why now rather than then.

Human beings are compelled to adopt a belief system; some paradigm to provide meaning, purpose, and understanding to our lives. A quick survey of the world shows that pretty much any idea will do -- it need not reflect reality or truth, merely function to fascinate, distract, and compel. We are designed for belief, not for truth.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what you want, the other is getting it.

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