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There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.
John Green
existencelife
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle
inspirational
Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!
J.K. Rowling
humor
Ah, she cried, you look so cool. Their eyes met and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table.You always look so cool, she repeated.She had told him that she loved him and Tom Buchanan saw.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
betrayallove
Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty. Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I am not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
Bill Watterson
calvinhobbeshumorintelligence
The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world. Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether you live or die is an absolute. Whether you have a piece of bread or not, is an absolute. Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromise is the transmitting rubber tube.
Ayn Rand
absolutecompromiseconflict-resolutionevilindecisivenessjudgement
My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.
Richard Adams
deathgriefloss
I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone…
Charlotte Eriksson
charlotte-erikssonconfusedempty-roads-broken-bottlesfinding-yourselflostlyricsmotivationmusicnot-enoughpressurethe-glass-childthe-great-perhapsyouth
One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem in becoming your own father or mother that a broad-minded and well-adjusted family can't cope with. There is no problem with changing the course of history—the course of history does not change because it all fits together like a jigsaw. All the important changes have happened before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the end.The major problem is simply one of grammar and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you, for instance, how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be descibed differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in the further past and is futher complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations while you are actually traveling from one time to another with the intention of becoming your own mother or father.Most readers get as far as the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up; and in fact in later aditions of the book all pages beyond this point have been left blank to save on printing costs.The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term Future Perfect has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.
Douglas Adams
grammarhumor
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
Baruch Spinoza
you
Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its won unhurried pace.
Brian L. Weiss
inspirationalpatiencesoul
Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.
David Foster Wallace
datinghumor
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.[The Sick Chamber (The New Monthly Magazine , August 1830)]
William Hazlitt
booksreadingsecretssoul
To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control his Son's suffering? But another sound can be heard: the shout of a God crying out to human beings, I LOVE YOU. Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
Philip Yancey
crossjusticepainsuffering
I figured even the most jaded and cynical inhabitant might report a bloody girl in a party dress carrying a severed head by its hair.
Faith Hunter
bloodjane-yellowrockparanormal-romanceskinwalkerurban-fantasy
A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.
Czesław Miłosz
religion
Love was never meant to be contained solely in our hearts, just as life in a seed was always meant to break through into the world and become beauty to be shared.
Forrest Curran
inspirationalmotivationalpeacephilosophyspiritualwisdomzen
Also … the plan sounded exactly like the sneaky, twisted, ridiculously annoying and noble sort of thing Leo Valdez would do.
Rick Riordan
leo-valdezsacrifice
There was something sort of bleak about her tone, rather as if she had swallowed an east wind. This I took to be due to the fact that she probably hadn't breakfasted. It's only after a bit of breakfast that I am able to regard the world with that sunny cheeriness which makes a fellow the universal favourite. I am never much of a lad till I've engulfed an egg or two and a beaker of coffee.I suppose you haven't breakfasted?I have not yet breakfasted.Won't you have an egg or something? Or a sausage or something? Or something?No, thank you.She spoke as if she belonged to an anti-sausage league or a league for the suppression of eggs. There was a bit of silence.
P.G. Wodehouse
eggsfoodgood-humorhumorsausage
It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible — incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It seemed to me that I made no impact on the world and that in exchange I was privileged to watch it unawares.
Marilynne Robinson
existenceinvisibility
Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city and deadly dull homes in the suburbs. Economic circumstances might force you to live in this environment, but the important thing was to keep from being contaminated. The important thing, always, was to remember who you were.
Richard Yates
dull-jobselftrue-to-selftruth
Let This Darkness Be a Bell TowerQuiet friend who has come so far,feel how your breathing makes more space around you.Let this darkness be a bell towerand you the bell. As you ring,what batters you becomes your strength.Move back and forth into the change.What is it like, such intensity of pain?If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine.In this uncontainable night,be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses,the meaning discovered there.And if the world has ceased to hear you,say to the silent earth: I flow.To the rushing water, speak: I am.
Rainer Maria Rilke
poetry
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
Bertolt Brecht
barbarismpoliticswar
When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.
Shannon L. Alder
accepting-personalitiesauthentic-selfbeing-freecommunicationconfidenceegoegotisticaleverything-is-not-about-youfamilyfreedomfriendsgossipgrowing-upguessinginternalizingletting-people-inlisteninglow-self-esteemmembersnarcissismnot-caringopening-upoverthinkingparanoiapersonalizingreading-between-the-linesreading-in-to-everythingseeingself-directedself-esteemsettingssiblingssocial-circlesspeculationtaking-things-personallytargetunderstandingvictomizationwinningwisdom
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
George Orwell
1984futurehistorypastpresent
Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.
Charles Bukowski
truth
Do not use your energy except for a cause more noble than yourself. Such a cause cannot be found except in Almighty God Himself: to preach the truth, to defend womanhood, to repel humiliation which your Creator has not imposed upon you, to help the oppressed. Anyone who uses his energy for the sake of the vanities of the world is like someone who exchanges gemstones for gravel. There is no nobility in anyone who lacks faith. The wise man knows that the only fitting price for his soul is a place in Paradise...
Ibn Hazm
islamreligionspirituality
In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest and react to what goes on.
Criss Jami
accessageconfusioneyeinformationinformation-overloadinternetissuejunkiesmediamindmind-controlmind-pollutionmobilenewsoverloadoverwhelmingstormtechnologytoo-muchworld
We mourn the future because it's easier than admitting that we're miserable in the present.
Robyn Schneider
futurelifeperspectivepresent
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
Guru Nanak
god-s-lovehumilitylove
Science is the most reliable guide in life.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
inspirationalscience
You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath.
Haruki Murakami
futurelife-lesson
There are two types of empathy: the positive empathy and the negative empathy. When we are fully carried away by the unaware activities of the mirror neurons, we are under the trap of negative empathy. The negative empathy generates attachments. Out of these attachments suffering follows. Negative empathy is a kind of reaction to a situation, whereas positive empathy is internal response of peace love and tranquility.... In positive empathy, your deep tranquility, joy and peace activates the mirror neurons of the others, whereas in negative empathy your mirror neurons are activated by the disturbance of others.
Amit Ray
empathyloving-kindnessmeditation
At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
Aberjhani
angel-poemscharlie-parkercreativitydiamondsgeniusjazz-appreciation-monthjazz-musicmadnessnational-poetry-monthpearlspoetrypoetssaxophone-players
When heaven joins the battle against you, who could stand?
Stephen R. Lawhead
battleheavenstand
Don't try to make yourself marketable, you'll be surprised to see yourself at the bottom. Stay incognito and people will peruse the whole world looking for you, by that time, you'll be at the top.
Michael Bassey Johnson
camoufladgecelebrityfake-peoplefamefamousfanshonourmichael-bassey-johnsonpopularpopularitypriderespectreverencerisingshowslow-and-steady
I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.
Karen Joy Fowler
crueltyexperimentationpsychologyscience
Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?
John Updike
conditionaldeathlifeself
As a rule, we don't like to feel to sad or lonely or depressed. So why do we like music (or books or movies) that evoke in us those same negative emotions? Why do we choose to experience in art the very feelings we avoid in real life?Aristotle deals with a similar question in his analysis of tragedy. Tragedy, after all, is pretty gruesome. […] There's Sophocles's Oedipus, who blinds himself after learning that he has killed his father and slept with his mother. Why would anyone watch this stuff? Wouldn't it be sick to enjoy watching it? […] Tragedy's pleasure doesn't make us feel good in any straightforward sense. On the contrary, Aristotle says, the real goal of tragedy is to evoke pity and fear in the audience. Now, to speak of the pleasure of pity and fear is almost oxymoronic. But the point of bringing about these emotions is to achieve catharsis of them - a cleansing, a purification, a purging, or release. Catharsis is at the core of tragedy's appeal.
Brandon W. Forbes
emotionsphilosophytragedy
Believe in the wonderment of life, the magic of love and the reality of death.
Carroll Bryant
life-lessonlive-nowphilisophicalphilisophical-lifephilisophical-lovephilosophy
The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
G.K. Chesterton
decisionsprogress
For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.
José Rizal
forgivenessreligion
I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good, the Golux said, by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life.The firefly's ? said the minstrel.The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.
James Thurber
good-and-evilhumour
It is said that men condemned to death are subject to sudden moments of elation; as if, like moths in the fire, their destruction were coincidental with attainment.
John le Carré
capturedeath
Change always sounds bad <...> we make it worse by resisting it. Sometimes the only thing worth pursuing is change. How else would we learn anything?
Deborah Cooke
change
Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone—Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy. Be silent in that solitude, Which is not loneliness—for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee—and their will Shall overshadow thee: be still. [...]
Edgar Allan Poe
death
You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.
Naomi Wolf
attitudecritical-thinkingdefiancedissentempowermentfreedomsocial-order
...he began to fear whether in the presence of far greater events, all his acts would not fade into insignificance, just as a drop of rain disappears into the sea.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
doubtfear-of-failurehopelessness
No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can and should, obey it.
C.S. Lewis
emotionheadheartreason
A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility of a secret; it is simply that they can never be booked, in the present, into anything that could rigorously be called a perception.
Jacques Derrida
deconstructionphilosophy