Quote thread

I'll post some of my favorite quotes. Feel free to contribute.

"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better."

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"Find what you love and let it kill you"

"A great life is a hard life."

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"It's pointless to fight an idiot, first he will get you to his level and then he will beat you with his experience."

"Make something idiot-proof, and the universe will create an even bigger idiot."

"I'll probably have Winds of Winter ready by Halloween this year"
-George R. R. Martin, 2015

"Those who can't begin don't finish."

"Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act."

"Happiness is having a scratch for every itch."

“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”

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"Lack of knowledge can be greater torture than the effort of acquiring it."

"When the student is ready the teacher appears."

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"Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die."

"Everybody is looking for someone who can stand up in the wind.
It is lonely standing up and crowded lying down.
I refuse to be an anchor for other people’s dreams – but then I refuse to anchor mine to anyone else.
So I have no choice but to stand up and piss into the wind."

"Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul."

"Laugh, and the world laughs with you - weep, and you weep alone."

"You can't reason someone out of a position they were never reasoned into in the first place."

"Absolute honesty isn’t always the most diplomatic nor the safest form of communication with emotional beings."

"All words are part false and part true, limited by our imperfect understanding."

"Only fools engage in any sort of 'fair' combat."

"The more things change the more they stay the same."

"Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

"Pain is the curse of consciousness."

This machine kills faggots

Jabubu

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I don't know. I look at these quotes and they don't really move me or inspire me. They all just seem kind of hollow and shallow, without context or meaning. I guess they gave themselves good advice that worked for them but, for me, I find it depressing to read them.

Okay, Except for the one by Marcus Aurelius.

I guess you could say his words are golden.

That quote by Marcus is fake.

"When someone is acting like a nigger, the only acceptable course of action is to treat them like one" - I forgot who said this

Oh… Never mind, then. I stand by what I said before.

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fucking Bill Hicks. I thought he was cool.

I think you got it all backwards mate.

how so?

he wasn't asking for free stuff.

he said that needing money to go somewhere means he's not free

the implication is that someone else should be forced to give him money or a ride

That's your assumption based on your personal biases.

Exactly what kikes dk

well what do you think he meant, then?

"In this moment i am euphoric, not by the blessing of some phony god but because i am enlightened by my own intelligence." -user

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