Quotes by Writers - Page 116

had no need of a guide to learn ignorance
Voltaire
He who laughs most, learns best
John Cleese
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Charles Caleb Colton
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I can't really tell how old I am, only that I'm too young to wonder if I asked the right questions in the past, and too old to wish the future will bring me all the answers.
Gabriel Bá
And the uniqueness of every momentseeks the path from pain to a pearl.
Lina Kostenko
Many an atheist is a believer without knowing it juast as many a believer is an atheist without knowing it. You can sincerely believe there is no God and live as though there is. You can sincerely believe there is a God and live as though there isn't.
Frederick Buechner
I honestly wish I could believe that things will end perfectly with one big bright happy ending. But these last few days have taught me that life isn't made up of shiny moments. Life is hard; it's gritty. One day you are filled with joy and the next, you are crawling through the muddy trenches with no inkling of when you might be able to climb your way back up again. ~Willow Mosby (Exposing ELE)
Rebecca Gober
Some people believe that to find happiness, you should live each day of your life as if it's your last because that way you will appreciate every single moment you have. Other people believe that you should live each day as if it's your first because then every day can be the beginning of a new journey.
Ellen DeGeneres
Sometimes is necessary to fall from grace to teach indecent.
Ahmed Akram Mirza
Time unlived grows old Like unworn robes in a locked chest.
Oktay Rifat
I thought I had made this discovery: that there are unexpected, constant repetitions in our behavior. The right combination of circumstances had enabled me to observe them. One seldom has the chance to be a clandestine witness of several talks between the same people. But scenes are repeated in life, just as they are in the theatre.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Anonymous > Quotes > Quotable Quote“I see life as a roadside inn where I have to stay until the coach from the abyss pulls up. I don’t know where it will take me, because I don’t know anything. I could see this inn as a prison, for I’m compelled to wait in it; I could see it as a social centre, for it’s here that I meet others. But I’m neither impatient nor common. I leave who will to stay shut up in their rooms, sprawled out on beds where they sleeplessly wait, and I leave who will to chat in the parlours, from where their songs and voices conveniently drift out here to me. I’m sitting at the door, feasting my eyes and ears on the colours and sounds of the landscape, and I softly sing – for myself alone – wispy songs I compose while waiting.
Fernando Pessoa
If life seems jolly rotten, There’s something you’ve forgotten.
Graham Chapman
Life goes on... with or without you.
Faraaz Kazi
Not living your life is just like killing yourself, only it takes longer.
A.S. King
If you're still living, you are yet! winning.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Life fits the shoe you walk in.
Fakeer Ishavardas
A questioning man is already half wise.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Life is an unfinished art, few master it, most just bark.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Do your thing, without harming anything.
Fakeer Ishavardas
There's plenty of food, other than non-vegetarian, here, on this earth. So, don't hurt, kill and eat animals to increase your girth
Fakeer Ishavardas
No one dies pre-maturely. As is meant, happens naturally.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Most humans are but beasts and bitches, till the One in All - this unconscious seeking, and conscious finding of it - 'em itches.
Fakeer Ishavardas
The mystic, identifying neither with his-her race-religion-gender nor with any mind-made blunder, lives and dies in One's splendor.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Be kind, for the other is not another, but your mirrored kine.
Fakeer Ishavardas
We're shadows! of naught;living, dying! for what's not.
Fakeer Ishavardas
The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
everything is absurd.1 man spends his life earning money which he then saves even though he has no children 2 leave it 2. another puts all his efforts into becoming famous so that he'll b remembered once dead, yet he doesn't believe in a survival of the soul that would give him knowledge of that fame. yet another wears himself out looking 4 things he doesn't even like.
Fernando Pessoa
A closed heart opens no mind.
Fakeer Ishavardas
We don't seek anyone out. We just wait and hope that people who want the same things come along.
Jonathan Luna
You are given a life, a death. Understand both while living, and before dying. Or you'd have wasted a life, a death.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Respect all people as you do your people, and you would be a fine people.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Your destiny - by hook or crook, by this way or that, at some corner or nook - will catch up with you.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Death is easy, living difficult.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Even if things do not work out as you thought they should for you, they do - in their own way, as they were meant to.
Fakeer Ishavardas
See yourself as a long-term work in progress, not a short-term project of preservation.
Oli Anderson
Humans, left to own misguided devices, scratches the Divine in the self as one would the lice, but remember to lick well all the vices.
Fakeer Ishavardas
If a religion asks one to kill another just because he or she follows not this ism, nor agrees with it; then, it's a hell-hole, worse than a prison. Run away, and far from it. As though your butt is on fire. And before you, yourself are imprisoned.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Given the situation I had gotten myself into, I just chose the path that seemed most likely to succeed and did the best I could. But Shota died so suddenly. His death ripped open a deep fissure in my life. It was a cruel and heedless truth that I will never be able to comprehend. No matter what I do, I cannot change it. Is there any meaning in this world where Shota could die such an inexplicable death? That fissure spread through me unexpectedly. A responsible person would probably tell me to smile even though he’s gone. They’d probably say Shota, even though he was only a child, would have wanted me to lead a good life. But I don’t need to hear those words. This world is overflowing with hackneyed expressions like that. They can comfort most people, but they make me suffer. Words that most people nod along to make those who can’t nod along suffer. They alienate them. What about words that can reach someone like me? Do those exist? I am twisted. I can’t look at the world straight. But why am still trying to live on? Even though I think it would be better to curse the world, smile perversely and die.
Fuminori Nakamura
I have it in my head that when we’re born, God writes things down on our hearts. See, on some people’s hearts he writes happy and on some people’s hearts he writes sad and on some people’s hearts he writes crazy and on some people’s hearts he writes genius and on some people’s hearts he writes angry and on some people’s hearts he writes winner and on some people’s hearts he writes loser.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
What fun it would be," he thought, "if one didn't have to think about happiness!
Aldous Huxley
I've nothing against people. Just a***oles. But then, most people are.
Fakeer Ishavardas
On a supra human level, yeah, I got That Which Is. Yet on a simple human level, rare are times when either my left or my right foot is not in some kind of shit.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Seeing Oneam undone!Enemy norlo! friend-sans One-is none.That! is "am"One-o-One!
Fakeer Ishavardas
The inability to rise above one's inherited ism and ideology makes one live and die a fool, just a folly.
Fakeer Ishavardas
To live unhappily, is failing life.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Take heart. You're not alone. Every broken heart breathes again. That's life. It goes on. In loss, and in gain.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Learn to accept life in toto. A perfect life is only in the dream world. This, my dear, with all it's heartaches, is it. Our world.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Any silly ism or stupid book that considers men above women, must be shunned like a lowlife demon. For, all's one, barring none.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Anais Nin responds to the age-old question of why some people are compelled to write:We... write to heighten our own awareness of life, we write to lure and enchant and console others, we write to serenade our lovers. We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection. We write, like Proust, to render all of it eternal, and to persuade ourselves that it is eternal. We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it. We write to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth, we write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely. We write as the birds sing. As the primitive dance their rituals. If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write.Now, please read that one more time. But this time, substitute the word “live” for the word “write” and there you have it—the point that’s always been right there in front of our nose.
Lee Eisenberg
I love religious nuts. They make me remember I have them too. So, being a health nut, I scratch them religiously. Just as I do my butt.
Fakeer Ishavardas
In general, things either work out or they don’t, and if they don’t, you figure out something else, a plan B. There’s nothing wrong with plan B.
Dick Van Dyke
The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
Aidan Chambers
I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.
Dick Van Dyke
Do you think it will always be this way?”“What?”“I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?”I wanted to tell him that the world would never belong to us. “I don't know,” I said. “Tomorrow.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask Him. The true prayer is that of the heart, and the heart prays only for what it desires. To pray, then is to desire -- but to desire what God would have us desire. He who asks what he does not from the bottom of his heart desire, is mistaken in thinking that he prays.
François Fénelon
Merciful Father.... I have squandered my days with plans of many things.This was not among them. But at this moment, I beg only, to live the next few minutes well.For all we ought to have thought and have not thought... All we ought to have said and have not said. All we ought to have done and have not done. I pray thee, God for forgiveness.
Ahmed Ibn Fadlan