Quotes

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die. - F. Forrester Church

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul." - Shakespeare Titus Andronicus V iii

"Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monument grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is." - Sylvia Plath, from The Journals of Sylvia Plath

" What came first, the music or the misery?
People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching
violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence
will take them over. Nobody worries about kids
listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs
about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss.
Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or
was I miserable because I listened to pop music?" - Rob Gordon (John Cusack)

"Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever." - Baron Munchausen

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell. Clarence Darrow, lecture, University of Chicago, 1929

"Do every act of your life as if it were your last." - Marcus Aurelius Mediations

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. - Friedrich Nietzsche

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your own estimate of it: and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." - Marcus Aurelius Mediations

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." - Oscar Wilde The Artist as Critic

Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. - Alfonso the Wise, 13th century

"Nothing in his life became him like the leaving of it." - Shakespeare Macbeth I iv