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When Kafka allows a friend to understand that he writes because otherwise he would go mad, he knows that writing is madness already, his madness, a kind of vigilence, unrelated to any wakefulness save sleep's: insomnia. Madness against madness, then. But he believes that he masters the one by abandoning himself to it; the other frightens him, and is his fear; it tears through him, wounds and exalts him. It is as if he had to undergo all the force of an uninterruptable continuity, a tension at the edge of the insupportable which he speaks of with fear and not without a feeling of glory. For glory is the disaster.
— Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster
An old dream with a shiny new veneer. It's fascinating, you know, how an obsolete madness is sometimes adopted and stylized in an attempt to ghoulishly preserve it. These are the days of second-hand fantasies and antiquated hysteria.("The Chymist")
— Thomas Ligotti, The Nightmare Factory
Those teetering on madness hold keys to doors you know nothing about. You must ask yourself if these rooms are worth visiting—if in the end life would have made more sense having been in them.
— Christopher Hawke, Unnatural Truth
I took a few dragging steps toward the locker-room door. 'You're doing something to me that I wouldn't do to a dog,' I mumbled. 'What you're doing to me is worse than if you were to kill me. You're locking me up in shadows for the rest of my life. You're taking my mind away from me. You're condemning me slowly but surely to madness, to being without a mind. It won't happen right away, but sooner or later, in six months or in a year - Well, I guess that's that.'I fumbled my way out of the locker room and down the passageway outside, guiding myself with one arm along the wall, and past the sergeant's desk and down the steps, and then I was out in the street.("All At Once, No Alice")
— Cornell Woolrich, Tales of Obsession: Mystery Stories of Fatal Attractions and Deadly Desires
Indeed, in that sense we’re all rather often almost like mad people, only with the slight difference that the ‘sick’ are somewhat madder than we are, so that it’s necessary to draw a line here.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
If u are tree, i'll be your shadow,If you free, i'll be your hobbie,If you fly,i'll be your wings,If you cry,i'll be your tears,If you are high,i'll be Your wine,If you are mad,I'll be You Love,If You are Life,I'll Be your Soul!OctavE
— GopS OctavE
Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy.
— Saul Bellow, Herzog
Do you know, Alexey Fyodorovitch, how people do go out of their mind?
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
How could you get mad at someone who neither needed to attack nor was at all worried about being able to defend? It was like getting mad at Switzerland.
— Karl Marlantes
You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
— Flannery O'Connor, The Violent Bear It Away
...My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you?
— Alan Moore, Batman: The Killing Joke
You`ll wondering why aren`t you born in Japan if you think you`re an Otaku
— Otaku Quotes
All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.
— Bram Stoker, Dracula
In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money.
— George Orwell
It's a myth that crazy people don't know they're crazy. Many of us are surely as capable of epiphany and introspection as anyone else, maybe more so. I suspect we spend far more time thinking about our thoughts than do sane people.
— Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl
Vaughn is talking about the heat, and his voice is so excited that it breaks into whispers at times. He loves his madness the way a bird loves the sky.
— Lauren DeStefano, Sever
Crazy people always think they're perfectly sane. It's what makes them so crazy
—  their entire delusion lies within the fact that they believe they aren't deluded.
When people fall in love, they are apt to go a little mad.
— Jennifer Paynter, Mary Bennet
Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.
— Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Nūllum magnum ingenium sine mixtūrā dēmentiae fuitNo great talent without an element of madness
— Seneca
Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness!
— Charles Dickens
All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in a strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.
— Yann Martel, Life of Pi
wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him.
— Anton Chekhov, About Love and Other Stories
If there was one thing I feared as I was growing up . . . No, that's stupid. I feared hundreds of things: the dark, the death of my father, the possibility that I might rejoice the death of my mother, sums involving vernier calipers, groups of schoolboys with nothing much to do, death by drowning. But of all these, I feared the most the possibility that I might go mad too.
— Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
Worse than madness. Sanity.
— William Golding, Pincher Martin
[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.
— Antonin Artaud
Madness does not always howl. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "Hey, is there room in your head for one more?
— Despair Inc.
The Mad Scene. Enter Ophelia!
— Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night
You don’t appreciate the fact that madmen are very lucky.
— Luigi Pirandello, Enrico IV - Diana e la Tuda
..he was 'nuts about her', as the parlance of the day had it, as if it were generally recognised that love and madness are adjoining rooms with extremely porous walls.
— Jan Kjærstad, The Seducer
In his madness he became a terrifying actor!
— Luigi Pirandello, Enrico IV - Diana e la Tuda
When he did think—when his brain began the slow chugging of rusty gears—the only thoughts that came were unspeakable things like, what’s the worst age a child can die? Worse yet was—after hours spent staring at the ceiling until it became a real-life Escher print with fans on the floor, useless windowsills, and dresser drawers that spilled underwear when opened—worse yet was when his mind found answers to those questions. Two-years-old isn’t so bad, he mused. They barely had a life. Twenty? At least they got to experience life! But fourteen... fourteen was the worst.
— Jake Vander-Ark
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
What do you do when the one person you want comfort from the most is the one who caused your pain? How can I want so desperately for him to wrap me up in his arms but also want so much for him to leave me alone.
— Amanda Grace, But I Love Him
I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :)
— Taylor Swift
It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn't be there at all.
— Dr. Seuss, Wacky Wednesday
He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.
— Leonardo da Vinci
I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.
— Charles Manson
Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.
— Aaron Burr
Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.
— François Mauriac
Nothing is so hard that it can't be found by searching.
— Kim Harrison, White Witch, Black Curse
Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next. His hands are clasped behind his head. "I know how you feel," he finally says. "But this is something you have to work out on your own. Nobody can help you. That's what love's all about, Kafka. You're the one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark. Your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
The opinions of others cannot damage you.
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments of its own; it merely conforms to the judgments of others. That is not real freedom, and it makes true love impossible, for if we are to love truly and freely, we must be able to give something that is truly our own to another. If our heart does not belong to us, asks Merton, how can we give it to another?
— Jon Katz
When you're living your life in endurance mode, you don't expect anything good to happen. I'm not saying that you don't dream about some miracle that would change everything for the better. But you pretty much know it's only a fantasy, and that you have no real control over anything.
— Nancy Werlin
Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.
— Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things
When someone is nasty or treats you poorly, don't take it personally. It says nothing about you, but a lot about them.
— Michael Josephson
Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children.
— Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie
Emma:“He broke your heart! How can you call it love when hehurt you so badly?”Kellan:“It was lovebecause it was worth it.
— Jay Asher, The Future of Us
We should have the right to have someone leave when we want, to only allow those in who we want in. But the truth is, people can force their way into your life whenever they choose. If they want to remind you forevermore that they exist, they will. They can reappear in a card or call or a "chance" meeting, they can remember your birthday or the day you met with some innocuous small note. No matter how little they matter in your new life, they can insist on being seen and recognized and remembered.
— Deb Caletti, Stay
And now—our love is so true, I won’t take a step without you. Thank God, you came. If you love me, please don’t ever let me go.
— Angela Morrison, Sing Me to Sleep
You're gon' have to say to your self, am I gon' believe what them fools say about me today?
— Kathryn Stockett, The Help
Just me, my music, and the voices in my head.
— Christie Silvers
A letter?” repeated Professor McGonagall faintly, sitting back down on the wall. “Really Dumbledore, you think you can explain all this in a letter? These people will never understand him! He’ll be famous—a legend—I wouldn’t be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter day in the future—there will be books written about Harry—every child in our world will know his name! ...
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
I was afraid to let other make any decisions, because I had no confidence they would be concerned for me.
— Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone
I take it that's where you met Todd.''Yep. Almost five years ago. Can you believe it?''Five years! You and Todd should be the poster couple for the 'Love Waits' campaign.'Christy laughed. 'It didn't seem that long. A lot has happened during those five years. But I do agree that true love is worth the wait. I'd wait another five years for Todd if I had to. He's the only man for me. Ever.
— Robin Jones Gunn, Don't You Wish
I know what happens a the end of falling-landing
— John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Just when it seems like life is getting good, something always has to come along and ruin it.
— Susane Colasanti, So Much Closer
Everything good in life is either immoral, illegal or fattening.
— Nicole Richie
Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer real to us and loses its hold on us. The truth sets us free.
— C. Terry Warner, Bonds That Make Us Free: Healing Our Relationships, Coming to Ourselves
Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.
— William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost
Czech: Řekni mi, co čteš, a já ti řeknu, kdo jsi.English: Tell me what you read, and I'll tell you who you are.First president of Czechoslovakia.
— Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
It's only awkward if you let it be.
— Silvia Donahue
Not all. Some of them he probably lectured to death.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Forever
That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that love was loss, that nothing worth saying was sayable, that dullness was general, that disintegration was irresistible.
— Joseph O'Neill, Netherland
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
— Mary Wollstonecraft
No, she learned that true love was epic stuff, as told by Mary.
— Harriet Evans, A Hopeless Romantic
Sure it hurts, but if you love someone, you forgive them." BlancheSomethings you forgive, somethings you never forgive." Kate
— Neil Simon, Brighton Beach Memoirs
What's ment to be will always find a way
— Trisha Yearwood
[Talking about Monte Rissell] ...and like Ed Kemper he was able to convince the psychiatrist he was making excellent progress while he was actually killing human beings. This is kind of a sick version of the old joke about how many psychiatrists it takes to change a light bulb. The answer being, just one, but only if the light bulb wants to change.
— John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker, Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
He imagined a town called A. Around the communal fire they’re shaping arrowheads and carving tributes o the god of the hunt. One day some guys with spears come over the ridge, perform all kinds of meanness, take over, and the new guys rename the town B. Whereupon they hang around the communal fire sharpening arrowheads and carving tributes to the god of the hunt. Some climatic tragedy occurs — not carving the correct tributary figurines probably — and the people of B move farther south, where word is there’s good fishing, at least according to those who wander to B just before being cooked for dinner. Another tribe of unlucky souls stops for the night in the emptied village, looks around at the natural defenses provided by the landscape, and decides to stay awhile. It’s a while lot better than their last digs — what with the lack of roving tigers and such — plus it comes with all the original fixtures. they call the place C, after their elder, who has learned that pretending to talk to spirits is a fun gag that gets you stuff. Time passes. More invasions, more recaptures, D, E, F, and G. H stands as it is for a while. That ridge provides some protection from the spring floods, and if you keep a sentry up there you can see the enemy coming for miles. Who wouldn’t want to park themselves in that real estate? The citizens of H leave behind cool totems eventually toppled by the people of I, whose lack of aesthetic sense if made up for by military acumen. J, K, L, adventures in thatched roofing, some guys with funny religions from the eastern plains, long-haired freaks from colder climes, the town is burned to the ground and rebuilt by still more fugitives. This is the march of history. And conquest and false hope. M falls to plague, N to natural disaster — same climatic tragedy as before, apparently it’s cyclical. Mineral wealth makes it happen for the O people, and the P people are renowned for their basket weaving. No one ever — ever — mentions Q. The dictator names the city after himself; his name starts with the letter R. When the socialists come to power they spend a lot of time painting over his face, which is everywhere. They don’t last. Nobody lasts because there’s always somebody else. They all thought they owned it because they named it and that was their undoing. They should have kept the place nameless. They should have been glad for their good fortune, and left it at that. X, Y, Z.
— Colson Whitehead, Apex Hides the Hurt
Be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.Style is King, 2008.
— Suzy Kassem
It must be October, the trees are falling away and showing their true colors.
— Charmaine J Forde
Life's true face is the skull.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
People always think something's all true.
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the indulgences exist.
— Alex Scarrow, The Eternal War
Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing as true love?
— Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love
America is still AmeriKKKa. rather we like it or not
— Fee Scott
You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life,' Rain once said to me, which I thought was a little hurtful but perhaps true.
— Dan Chaon, Stay Awake
A true friend is not angry when you insult. Instead they think of more insulting words to you.
— Sphencer Perales
age is a terrible theif
— Sara Gruen
Why do I find it hard to write the next line?
— Gary Kemp
You're not in love. You only like the feeling of being in love.
— Chicha Bans
I just like to say I'm from London, I don't have any specific area I represent. I'm not representing for a small group of people. I'd like everybody to be able to relate to a nerd, because everybody's a bit nerdy. I'm more interested in that than in where they're from. I'm more interested in what people do.
— Craig Taylor
I just have to do the right thing, and recently I've realized that sometimes the right thing seems crazy to those who don't want change.
— P.C. Cast, Moon Chosen
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit
— Kate Karyus Quinn, (Don't You) Forget About Me
Then Gerry heard through his helmet radio the two most dreaded words any crew never wanted to hear during a space mission; "Oh sh*t
— Scott Mackay, Phytosphere
The realest of cats love with all of their being...
— Will Advise
Thinking right makes us good
— Thinking Heaven gives us joy
That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do.
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Eloquence.— We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true.
— Blaise Pascal, The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal
Everything in our life is an illusion.
— Gor Ghazaryan
You become a true philanthropist only when you empty yourself to be a blessing to others without expecting anything in return
— Topsy Gift
don't live to regret the things you never said
— Nick Pollack, Any Girl Who Loves The Beatles Is Bound To Break Your Heart
The truth is often found in humour.
— Nick Pollack, Any Girl Who Loves The Beatles Is Bound To Break Your Heart
It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at you bravest
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
The day you stop learning more about yourself is the day you die.
— Jochebed Gwamna
Such is the nature of people: they regret that what was, although it wasn't even nice, because they are afraid of what will be – the unknown.
— Osyp Nazaruk, Roxelana
I wish creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!", "You'll get used to it in time," said the Caterpillar; and it put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again.
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
True worship is God-centered
— Sunday Adelaja
True satisfaction comes when the pursuit of purpose in the kingdom of God comes first
— Sunday Adelaja
To Embrace The True Purpose Of The Kingdom Is To Have A Changed Live
— Sunday Adelaja
When you lose yourself in love, you find everything.
— Kate McGahan
It was true. Heard it on Cronkite.
— Nathan  Hill, The Nix
His dad said if you did something wrong to someone in public, you ought to admit it in public, too.
— Suzanne Collins, Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods
It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.
— Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
When Death has a story to tell
—  you listen.
I think that when you don't know, you should wait until you do.
— Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger
You always question what's new. It's human nature. While everything else, you know, no matter how strange, feels normal because you're trained to see it that way. You're brainwashed.
— J.M. Darhower, Sweetest Sorrow
And what's above all... above us... Who is God!?- Who are the aliens... who are the people which ignore us!?
— Deyth Banger, Code
...the people arrogant enough to use the words 'I understand' are the ones who can't possibly understand.
— David Arnold
While some consider God's standards as too confining, a true believer sees them as loving and freeing.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
You Only Live Once (YOLO)
— Drake
You can choose what you believe, Shuffler, but you can't change what's true.
— S.D.   Smith, The Green Ember
More important, it's because God is our only true source of life.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
If they succeed, it will not matter if Man becomes immortal.He will have nothing to live for.
— James Edwin Gunn, The Immortals
Don't get so holy, Pearce. Life isn't holy.
— James Edwin Gunn, The Immortals
Other kids are kids almost just like you - it's true.Other kids are kids too, but there's no other you, but YOU!
— Christina Engela, Other Kids Are Kids Almost Just Like You
Captain," said the squire, "the house is quite invisible from the ship. It must be the flag they are aiming at. Would it not be wiser to take it in?""Strike my colours!" cried the captain, "No sir, not I"...
— Robert Louis Stevenson
But as much as life is sometimes about knowing what you want and going after it and finishing, maybe other times it’s about slowing down and shutting up and waiting. There’s not always a clear beginning and obvious end. Sometimes we’re in the middle . . . and it’s okay to camp out there for a while.
— Melissa Tagg, Three Little Words
I’m sure I look a wreck. But he’s the one who wrecked me so he may as well take a good long look at what he’s done.
— Monica  Murphy, Fair Game
I find a good cliche very comforting in times of stress." said the Sage.
— Anneliese Blakeney, The Princess and The Sage
They never say this,but it’s true,it was raining the first time I saw you.
— Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney
Making a lie complicated... doesn't sound true.(BackStrom Season 1 episode 7)
— Deyth Banger
There are so many people out there that will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me!
— Ashley Purdy
I don't want other people to mention my "self". Besides if I can be changed by a few words, then that wouldn't be my "self" would it?
— Hikigaya Hachiman
Because he was English and that's what the English do under stress: they drink tea.
— Cynthia Hand, My Lady Jane
When religion ceases to be speculative and becomes factual and "true", it will become science. Science can be used to prove or disprove opinions, beliefs and accusations. Until any religion crosses that line, who is anyone to use their religion to judge others?
— Christina Engela, Demonspawn
Mars and my own stupidity keep trying to kill me.
— Andy Weir, The Martian
Ne dites pas trop de mal de vous-meme: on vous croirait. - Don't talk too badly of yourself: they ight believe you.
— André Maurois
Truly speaking -finding happiness is to do with being selfish, but that doesn't mean true selfish
— Praveen Chenna
The bastards had done their job well.
— Stephen Charles Gould
Standing still is always more tiring than walking
— Julia Quinn, Because of Miss Bridgerton
Life is not about the people who act true to your face, It's about the people who remain true behind your back.
— Moosa Rahat
many men are neither worthy of their wives, nor of their dogs.
— Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Heir of Redclyffe
It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. There is a theory that, in the whole world, there are only five hundred real people (the cast, as it were; all the rest of the people in the world, the theory suggests, are extras) and what is more, they all know each other. In reality the world is made of thousands upon thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each other, trying to avoid each other, and discovering each other in the same unlikely teashop in Vancouver. There is an unavoidability to this process. It's not even coincidence. It's just the way the world works, with no regard for individuals or for propriety.
— Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
Well packaged, even a falsehood may seem true or feasible.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
New thing is made in writting books, (novels, short stories... stories...)... It's to be build a character which you will love you will like him.... and one moment he dies... isn't it awesome?
— Deyth Banger
I think it's important for me to keep my childhood friends so that later on someone can appreciate how far I've come.
— Jeff Kinney
Jealousy is nothing but a fear of being abandoned
— Heidi Heilig, The Girl from Everywhere
And I'll be a witch in hell before I let someone hurt my dogs.
— Barbra Annino, Tiger's Eye
Why did you come out when you knew how your family would react?” I murmured, wrapping my arms around his waist. I brushed my lips the length of Lock’s neck.“Because I didn’t want to hide. I hated acting like I was someone I wasn’t.”“I never did thank you for that sub.”Lock laughed. “Adan, you’ve thanked me a hundred times over.”“I don’t recall.”“Every time we’re together, or when you kiss me, it’s a constant reminder of how we met, and I wouldn’t exchange that for anything.
— Shaye Evans, Seduction Squad
Owen is Owen. No one gets to tell him how to live his life. Not you, not me, and not some author nobody. Owen gets to choose how his life story goes, and no one, let alone his idiot fictional self, gets to take that away from him.
— James Riley
To critique sexist images without offering alternatives is an incomplete intervention. Critique in and of itself does not lead to change.
— bell hooks
Time reveals the truth.
— J.R. Rim
Work so hard that even hard worksays damn he is tougherthan me :)
— shivangi lavaniya
What you don’t even realize now—what you will only come to understand in time, but lucky for you, I’m here to tell you—is you’re not going to give two shits about this band in a few years. In fact, I guarantee that this group that you admire so much and that you are putting all of your love and dedication and devotion into will be nothing more than an obsession you will be immensely embarrassed of having had. One day you’ll be in college, maybe you’ll be at a party, and someone will say, ‘Hey, do you remember The Ruperts? How shitty was their music?’ and you will have a moment of crisis: Do you admit your former love for them, or do you concede, because you know in your heart that this person is right? And guess what you’ll say? You’ll say, ‘Yeah, their music was utter. Putrid.Garbage.
— Goldy Moldavsky, Kill the Boy Band
So that while others may look on the laws of physics as legislation and God as a human form with beard measured in light-years and nebulae for sandals, Faust's kind (poets) are alone with the task of living in a universe of things which simply are, and cloaking that innate mindlessness with comfortable and pious metaphor so that the "practical" half of humanity may continue in the Great Lie, confident that their machines, dwellings, streets and weather share the same human motives, personal traits and fits of contrariness as they.
— Thomas Pynchon, V.
So that while others may look on the laws of physics as legislation and God as a human form with beard measured in light-years and double for sandals, Faust's kind (poets) are alone with the task of living in a universe of things which simply are, and cloaking that innate mindlessness with comfortable and pious metaphor so that the "practical" half of humanity may continue in the Great Lie, confident that their machines, dwellings, streets and weather share the same human motives, personal traits and fits of contrariness as they.
— Thomas Pynchon, V.
So that while others may look on the laws of physics as legislation and God as a human form with beard measured in light-years and nebulae for sandals, Fausto's kind (poets) are alone with the task of living in a universe of things which simply are, and cloaking that innate mindlessness with comfortable and pious metaphor so that the "practical" half of humanity may continue in the Great Lie, confident that their machines, dwellings, streets and weather share the same human motives, personal traits and fits of contrariness as they.
— Thomas Pynchon, V.
Posterity will never hear of you. You will be lifted clean out from the stream of history. We shall turn you into gas and pour you into the stratosphere. Nothing will remain of you; not a name in a register, not a memory in a living brain. You will be annihilated in the past as well as in the future. You will never have existed.
— George Orwell
In a world like that, there'd be no need for love anymore either. if everyone were perfect, there would be no need to look out for others. Sympathy or Love is needed because people are imperfect. A perfect human cannot love anyone.
— Tamiki Wakaki
Somewhere within the meeting of our eyes, our souls were bonding, even if our day to day lives were far apart.
— Carol Drinkwater
FART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
— Caleb Lailk
I learned that true love turns the other cheek, does not take a wrong into account, loves all people regardless of their indifference or hostility.
— Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
At the most basic level, self-deception is fooling ourselves into believing something that is false -- or -- not believing something that is true.
— Cortney S. Warren, Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception
No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like
— Marie Lu, The Young Elites
Pretending is such a hard game to play sometimes.
— Bushra Khanum
Whether what you learned was objectively true or false, the conclusions that you made about yourself, your environment, and other people will be replayed in your life because they become a part of who you are.
— Cortney S. Warren, Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception
You live in this world once. Let your true and authentic YOU get unleashed. The world is desperately waiting your unique brand unchained.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Most people are genuinely good, sweetheart, and even the evil ones have some good in them. -Shannon Hale
— Shannon Hale, The Unfairest of Them All
As the saying goes- “Habit trumps desire”. If you are a writer, you have to be writing. Write everyday. Set targets and meet them. Keep reading, keep learning, keep growing.Do not try to be a person you are not. Great writing is genuine and true. Remember to have the time of your life while at it :-)
— Roxanna Aliba Kazibwe
Thanks god to remind me again there is nothing true Except you
— Paul karan
How can you know if you’re normal when you’re always alone? You have no one to compare yourself to. I mean, I have my mom and dad, and I’m pretty normal compared to them. But then… a lot of people are normal compared to them
— Anne Pfeffer, Just Pru
Don't fret, we'll sort this out: the true and the not true and the might as well be true.
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
When the dust settles, the horses will be gone
— Yasmine Hamdi, Spirit of the Wind
No point in living a life less ordinary if you don't know what the other side looks like.
— Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes
Better to be a diamond in the rough, than a polished fake in denial.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
It's true what they say, Love is a wicked game,A game so wickedly played,I am at your command in your wicked games.
— Tanzy Sayadi, Write like no one is reading 2
Sim sighed. "like Ross always said: Wish in one hand,shit in the other,and see which hand fills up first.
— Keith Gray, Ostrich Boys
When you've earned something, I mean really earned it, no one can make you doubt that you deserve it. They can't say it isn't yours. There's something about getting a thing that you've bled and fought for that makes the getting that much sweeter.
— Rachael Allen
Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang."~ Mary Kay
— Mary Kay Ash
To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them."— Picabo Street
— Picabo Street, Picabo: Nothing to Hide
To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them."To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them."— Picabo Street
— Picabo Street
I don’t just want to do the right thing. I want to WANT to do the right thing.
— Allie Brosh
The word just hangs, until Severin starts the blender and there's only the sound of crunching and grinding vitamins, the silvery core of nourishment, containing every essential thing but the nourishment itself." (pg. 82)
— Deb Caletti, The Fortunes of Indigo Skye
The problem, of course, is that there's no way of knowing that your last good day is your Last Good Day. At the time, it's just another good day.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind.
— Sharon Creech
Love conquers all," murmured Kim. "I heard it in a song, so it must be true.
— Simon R. Green, Ghost of a Chance
The world was a tough and unfair place, but even the most hardened soul likes to chew on fruit.
— Paul Adam Levy, Skive
Sometimes life hits with a brick in the head, don't lose hope".-Steve Jobs.
— Steve Jobs
Personally, I think, so what? Money's just a thing and things change. That's what I've found. One minute something's really there, right next to you, and you can cuddle up to it. The next it just melts away, like a Hershey's kiss.
— Frank Cottrell Boyce
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
— George S. Patton Jr.
Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive things.
— Rick Yancey
You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
Throughout life, we are put into boxes to categorize how people see and know us. This is how stereotypes originate, because people would rather read the labels on the box instead of taking a look and seeing what's inside
— Gaby Rodriguez
Sometimes, things just aren't meant to be. Sometimes, no matter how bad you want it, you got to let it go. True.. Letting go.
— Rola Mahmoud
What’s it like to be in love?”"It’s the most wonderful and terrible thing that can ever happen to you,
— Kiera Cass, The Elite
Dream big dreams,because little dreams have no magic.
— Rachel Renée Russell, Tales from a Not-So-Talented Pop Star
A good commander, thought Ender, doesn't have to make stupid threats.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
We all have a certain knowledge about how the universe works. And when someone comes along and challenges that knowledge, we don’t know how to deal with it. We aren’t hardwired that way. It’s difficult to question everything you’ve ever thought to be true. So, like I said, it’s not your fault. You can believe me or not, but whichever you choose, you’re the one who has to deal with the consequences. So make your decision wisely, grasshopper,
— Darynda Jones, First Grave on the Right
People don't change, they come closer and closer to who they really are.
— Faraaz Kazi
I wasn’t afraid of your average dark alley. I had standard Agency-issue spells in my coat and a nine millimeter in my purse for dealing with the less dangerous pests, but even I knew you have to be careful with an upset woman.
— J.C. Nelson, Free Agent
It's like they've forgotten everything important, isn't it? I mean, forgotten things like cats and dancing exist.
— Katherine Rundell
Stupid fate, you suck ass.
— Cassie Graham, Unable to Resist
Go lovingly into each moment and experience your infinite being as you truly are. Feel, learn, play!
— Jay Woodman
This book says 'life isn't fair' and I'm telling you, one and all, you betterbelieve it. I got a fat spoiled son�he's not gonna nab Miss Rheingold. And he's always gonna be fat, evenif he gets skinny he'll still be fat and he'll still be spoiled and life will never be enough to make himhappy, and that's my fault maybe�make it all my fault, if you want�the point is, we're not created equal,for the rich they sing, life isn't fair. I got a cold wife; she's brilliant, she's stimulating, she's terrific; there'sno love; that's okay too, just so long as we don't keep expecting everything to somehow even out for usbefore we die.
— William Goldman, The Princess Bride
... what I'm doing in here isn't all that different from what I was doing outside. I'll hand you a pretty cynical axiom: the amount of financial help an individual or company needs rises in direct proportion to how many people that person or business is screwing.
— Stephen King, Different Seasons
It seems to me that God would not have endowed us with a mind and a sense of curiosity if he did not mean for us to use it.
— Matthew S. Williams
You see, the longer you put a problem off, the worse it becomes
— Mark Teague, Frog Medicine
Love has a way of making the sane insane and the insane normal.
— Shannon L. Alder
A hound will die for you, but never lie to you.
— George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
How true is the saying that the very highest in rank are always the most simple and kindly. It is from you half-and-half sort of people that you get pomposity and vulgarity
— H. Rider Haggard, Allan Quatermain
The hunger inside us must be fed to be controlled.
— Darren Shan, The Vampire's Assistant
Dying is Easy , its Living that's hard
— Alden Bell, The Reapers are the Angels
My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
And when in doubt, Josh, follow your heart. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But this... This is always true.
— Michael Scott, The Enchantress
Don't judge those, who are doing something bad, judge these, who told them do do that.
— Karolis
All the nightmares will come true, whether you try or not, but for your dreams to come true, you have to do everything.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Love isn't about what happens after, it's about how great it is finding that love. The greater the find and chase, the longer the love lasts.
— Samuel Skillman
And I couldn't tell my mother to fuck off.I'd be killed.
— Audrey Bell, The Fall of January Cooper
-I'm stubborn not stupid. There's a fine line between the two. Stupid people think they're right when they're wrong. Stubborn people know they're wrong but won't admit it.
— K. Mitch
Real friends, are really hard to come by.
— Anthony Liccione
Why do we put our self esteem in the hands of complete strangers? 
— Helena Bonham Carter
My mom used to say that sometimes just saying something aloud was enought to make it true. I wasn't so sure about that.
— Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds
you never know your true genius untill you do what you love
— Wouter Van Gastel
He's looking at me intensely now like he can read my mind. Which of course, he can. Maybe I'm an open book, or maybe love is like a magnifying glass straight into the souls of those who own your heart.
— Mia Sheridan
to love is to destroy
— Cassie Clare
Little kids talk about the strangest things. They really do.
— Stephen Chbosky
First things first, though, I thought, and headed straight for the liquor cabinet. Times like this call for straight scotch, no rocks.
— Susan Toy
The horse does of two things. He does what he thinks he's supposed to do, or he does what he thinks he needs to do to survive.
— Ray Hunt
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid one are full of confidence".
— Charles Bukowski
There's always new stuff, that's for sure.
— Patti Smith, Just Kids
Be true to yourself and don't live your life according to other people's dreams and wants.
— Ambra Celeste, Be Careful What You Wish for
An Army wife is probably the only woman in the world whoknows and readily accepts that she is the mistress, because, let’sface it, the Army is the wife and the wife gets all the damnattention!
— Aditi Mathur Kumar, Soldier and Spice - An Army Wife's Life
we are not born to be PERFECT!but to be TRUE !
— "epey" herher
Be kind to everyone, everyone is going through something
— Mary Elizabeth Owens, The Crimson Parasol
The Internet is an excellent invention for people with nothing better to do, and people with something better to do who nonetheless don't want to do it.
— Amanda Sledz, Psychopomp Volume One: Cracked Plate
When you're in a train and it breaks down, well, there you is. But when you're in a plane and it breaks down, there you AIN'T.
— Amy Hill Hearth, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
It's not such a huge deal when this happens at a 7-Eleven. It's pretty huge, though, when you spend the entire job interview trying not to come across like a box of hair and you come across like a box of hair.
— Augusten Burroughs, This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
Cath shook her head. "Now is all you get," she spat out, wishing she could make more sense. Wishing for more words, or better ones. "Now is all you ever get.
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can't help yourself.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious
— Mark Twain
Sides, i don't like the posed pics.They're not the real person.They're a reflection of what the person wants the world to think of her-not what she really is.
— Rachel Hawthorne, Suite Dreams
She'd been pounding her location and thoughts into a device that would send those things to virtually any human with Internet access and yet looking over her shoulder had been a violation of privacy.
— Stefan Bourque, My Name is Joe
The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.
— Carl Sagan
Celaena?” Sam asked into the dark. “Should I worry about going to sleep?”She blinked, then laughed under her breath. At least Sam took her threats somewhat seriously.
— Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Pirate Lord
Maybe it's okay to be a kid once in a while.
— Rick Riordan
Priorities need to change at different stages of our life if we want to grow and evolve.
— Apurva Purohit, Lady, You're Not a Man! : The Adventures of a Woman at Work
The true forgiver will always look into your eyes.
— Aniruddha Sastikar
When a situation gets so bad that no solution seems possible there is left only murder and suicide, or both. These failing, one becomes a buffoon.
— Henry Miller, Nexus
Happiness is achieved by flowing with the known and the unknown within you, being in a state of simplified simplicity.
— Pablo Andrés Wunderlich Padilla
All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost.
— James Frey, A Million Little Pieces
It was almost better to be caught by the hungry, soulless vampires; the most they would probably do was drink your blood and leave you to die. Humans were capable of far, far worse.
— Julie Kagawa, The Immortal Rules
She shook her head and whispered, "No. No! That can't be true. Impossible!""You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true!
— Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife
I’m a realist,” I said. “Lying and making promises about forever is almost as bad as one day at a time.
— Nicole  Williams, Crash
I know i don't get the happily ever after. My knight and shinning armor took the highway detour around this godforsaken shit hole. I've made peace with that. That doesn't mean i'm going to lie down like a doormat and let every cocky prick in the trailer have his way with me." - White Trash Beautiful
— Teresa Mummert, White Trash Beautiful
Beware of advice—even this.
— Carl Sandburg
Well, as you can plainly see, the possibilities are endless like meandering paths in a great big beautiful garden.
— William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.
— Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston - The Last Emperor
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The thing about negotiations, not to mention the manipulation, is you can't go too far in any direction. Refusing once is good, twice is usually okay but a third is risky. You never know when the third person will stop playing and you end up with nothing.
— Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
If we really feared the crash, most of us would be unable to look at a car, let lone drive one.
— J.G. Ballard
Be careful, Hally.""Of what? The truth? I seem to be the only one around here who is prepared to face it.
— Athol Fugard, Master Harold...and the boys
C'mon, Amory. Your romance is overYou don't know how true you spoke. No idea. 'At's the whole trouble
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
You know how some people get sun-kissed, well i got sun bitch slapped
— Ryan Oliveira
Cutting a tree down doesn't kill it
—  it erases it from history.
Booty Butt, Booty Butt, Booty Butt Cheeks
— René Descartes
Of course I wasn't abused. If I were
—  things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a shrinks office. I'd have a justification and something to work on. The world wasn't going to give me something that tidy.
...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.
— Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things
Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
I wake in the night. Or sometimes I don't wake in the night. It hardly seems to make a difference.
— Nicci French, The Red Room
People blame science. Shit, man, people shouldn’t blame science. People should blame people.
— Mira Grant, Countdown
...the words alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language...those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.
— Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality