Quotable quotes

[NotHardUp1]

“I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.”

John Fowles

 

[NotHardUp1]

“If you live today, you breathe in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.”

Flannery O'Connor

 

[NotHardUp1]

“I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.”

Ivan Turgenev

 

[NotHardUp1]

 

[NotHardUp1]

“No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.”

Dorothy Day

 

[NotHardUp1]

“While skepticism is healthy, cynicism, real cynicism, is toxic.”

John Oliver

 

[Araucaria]

Freud saw man's mind as basically a battlefield. He is a dark-cellar in which a well-bred spinster lady and a sex-crazed monkey are forever engaged in mortal combat, the struggle being refereed by a rather nervous bank clerk. --Don Bannister

 

[Alistair]

Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest — thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.

Beau Taplin

 

[Alistair]

 

[PalacePaul]

 

[Rand]

 

[NotHardUp1]

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I admire Roosevelt greatly, although he was an inveterate liar, but usually for the good. Case in point: he lied to both Japan and Russia to get them to the negotiating table in San Francisco to end the Russo-Japanese War. They were both entrenched and his lie got them to talk, avoiding a devastating land war that would have followed the sea battles.

 

[Alistair]

“Quand je veux mourir le mercredi matin Je me dis ça peut attendre jeudi matin Quand je me réveille le matin du jeudi Je me dis j'aurais dû mourir mercredi”

Translation —
When I want to die Wednesday morning, I tell myself, this can wait til Thursday. When I wake up Thursday morning, I tell myself I could’ve died on Wednesday.

Emily Loizeau “Je ne sais pas choisir"

 

[opinterph]

“When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[Alistair]

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end./

Leonard Cohen

 

[Alistair]

Translation —
When I want to die Wednesday morning, I tell myself, this can wait til Thursday. When I wake up Thursday morning, I tell myself I should’ve died on Wednesday.

Emily Loizeau “Je ne sais pas choisir"

Corrected translation

 

[Rand]

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[Alistair]

 

[Alistair]

Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.

Leo F. Buscaglia

 

[Rand]

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