Famous Quotes

"The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates"

"Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing- singing, laughing, learning."

"Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths."

"She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place."

"Nothing in this world compares to the comfort and security of having someone just hold your hand."

"A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception."

"The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization."

"A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right."

"How would your life be different if…You didn’t allow yourself to be defined by your past? Let today be the day…You stop letting your history interfere with your destiny and awaken to the opportunity to release your greatest self."

"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."

"The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW."

"Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it."

"I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely."

"I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand."

"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."

"Don't give up! It's not over. The universe is balanced. Every set-back bears with it the seeds of a come-back."

"Being liked for the way you looked is worse than not being liked at all."

"You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road."

"We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness."

"There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while."

"All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess."

"I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things."