For every ill he has found its remedy save only death !( Sophocles, Antigone)
For every ill he has found its remedy save only death !( Sophocles, Antigone)
-Marilyn Monroe"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
I love this quote because it describes me 100%.
"So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales!There's no need for red-hot pokers. HELL IS--OTHER PEOPLE!"
— Jean-Paul Sartre (No Exit: A Play in One Act)
Originally Posted by Pollopicu
its really a lovely quote..
"He is asleep. Though his mettle was sorely tried,
He lived, and when he lost his angel, died.
It happened calmly, on its own,
The way the night comes when day is done."
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Earl of Beaconsfield
"He is asleep. Though his mettle was sorely tried,
He lived, and when he lost his angel, died.
It happened calmly, on its own,
The way the night comes when day is done."
I can't pick a single quote. I will however paste several that I like.
"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine. " - Nikola Tesla
"I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"What doesn't kill me makes me stronger"- Friedrich Nietzsche
"The life of a man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." - Thomas Hobbes
"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." - Benjamin Franklin
"We can infer how blessed must be the life of a man whose will is silenced not for moments, as in the enjoyment of the beautiful, but for ever, indeed completely extinguished, except for the last glimmering spark that maintains the body." -- Arthur Schopenhauer [by will he is speaking of sexual desire]
"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in" -- Arthur Schopenhauer
"How nicely the ***** sensuality knows how to beg for a piece of spirit, when a piece of flesh is denied her!" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"Faith: Not wanting to know what is true." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything." - George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"It is the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. " - Aristotle
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"I teach you the Übermensch. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? … What is ape to man? A laughing stock or painful embarrassment. And man shall be that to the Übermensch" -- from Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche
“Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.” - Nikola Tesla
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
-President Theodore Roosevelt.
I would rather live a day as a lion than a hundred years as a dog
-Major Doug Zembiec.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it's not.
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power ... the world will know peace"- I came across this quote recently... can u tell me whose it iz???
No art is possible without a dance with death. Celine
“Be Who You Are and Say What You Feel Because Those Who Mind Don't Matter and Those Who Matter Don't Mind.” Dr Suess
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings- Socrates (apparently).
All man could win in the conflict between plague and death was knowledge and memories- Albert Camus, The Plague.
Hell is other people- Sartre, No Exit (i think)
Mors Omnia Vincit;Death conquers all- from Alain de Bottons' 'Status Anxiety', i'm not sure who originally wrote it, might have been Seneca.
Books for everybody are always malodorous books: the smell of petty people clings to them- Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil.
Today it is bad, and day by day it will get worse-until the worst of all arrives- Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
“Hey, the offensive linemen are the biggest guys on the field, they're bigger than everybody else, and that's what makes them the biggest guys on the field.”--John Madden
I have to add this as it is one of my favorite quotes. It was uttered by my son.
"I wish there was a cloud in the sky that never died and held all of our lives in it". February 16th, 2005. M.D.N. AGE 7
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists."
- Charles Dickens
One of my favorites - believing without seeing is the ultimate form of love.
"The only paradise is a paradise lost". Marcel Proust....what about a Sadparadise? Surely I exist!!
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