Famous Quotes

"Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go."

"Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion."

"Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)"

"All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else."

"CALVIN:As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight."

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials."

"If you don't learn to laugh at life it'll surely kill you, that I know."

"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control."

"And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit."

"Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there."

"CALVIN:When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment."

"When all else fails, there's always delusion."

"I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got."

"Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there."

"To leave, after all, was not the same as being left."

"Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward."

"There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say "I will be ready when I am perfect" because then you will never be ready, rather one must say "I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am."

"Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die."

"Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all."

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer."

"There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still;So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will.They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest."

"Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route."