Quotes

[Sensei]

"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane." ― Philip K. Dick

 

[Gentleman]

"Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone."
Fred Rogers

 

[Antigonish]

I have become death, the destroyer of worlds.

As I gazed into the abyss, it gazed back at me.

Here lies ozymandius, king of kings

I'm thinking about ending things

 

[mahakaliSS_MahaDurga]

Death and destruction are necessary to the health of the world, and therefore as natural, and lovable, as birth and life. Only priests and born cowards moan and weep over dying. Brave men face it with approving nonchalance.

Ragnar Redbeard

 

[MichaelNomad123]

"Everything is impossible until it's obvious"

 

[Sensei]

"What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others." ― Confucius

 

[DocNo]

"It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom."
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."
Mark Twain


and some of one of my favorite comedians Steven Wright:
"When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane."
"Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have."
"I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize."
"A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking."
"Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now."

 

[woxihuanni]

'Is there anything to eat in this forest?' asked Twoflower.

'Yes.' Said Rincewind. 'Us.'

 

[TheGoodGuy]

Two of my own.
"Childhood and teenage years are living, adulthood is just existing" and "Childhood was paradise"

 

[mahakaliSS_MahaDurga]

"I hate and I love. Why I do this, perhaps you ask.
I know not, but I feel it happening and I am tortured."

Catullus

 

[Deleted member 23374]

The moon is made of a green cheese.

John Heywood

 

[DocNo]

"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little."
Mark Twain

 

[StringPuppet]

"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness."

 

[LooksAtMoonDog]

"As I understand the term, it is of the very essence of democracy that the individual citizen shall be invested with the inalienable and sovereign right to make an ass of himself; and furthermore, that he shall be invested with the sovereign right of publicity to tell all the world that he is doing so."
― Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man

 

[Sprite_Geist]

"Much of our attack will be a mere illusion... But often times belief can be as destructive as actual weapons." - Lord Naga Sadow.

"A life without regret is a life well-lived." - Tenebrae.

"Here in his shrine - that they have forgotten. Here do we toil - that we might remember. By night we reclaim - what by day was stolen. Far from ourselves - he grows ever near to us. Our eyes once were blinded - now through him do we see. Our hands once were idle - now through them does he speak. And when the world shall listen. And when the world shall see. And when the world remembers. That world shall cease to be." - Mantra of Miraak.

 

[Gentleman]

Whatever else our ethical commitments and specific constraints are, we can and should certainly all agree that, in principle, the overall amount of conscious suffering in all beings capable of conscious suffering should be minimized.
-Thomas Metzinger on Suffering-Focused Ethics

 

[Deleted member 14573]

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

~ Diogenes​

 

[foxdie]

"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination."

Mark Twain