George Carlin

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
George Carlin


When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.
George Carlin

 If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
George Carlin


Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
George Carlin


Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
George Carlin

Carl Jung

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Carl Jung

 Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
Carl Jung


Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung

Johnny Cash

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.
Johnny Cash


You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Johnny Cash

Rimbaud

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
Arthur Rimbaud

Friedrich Nietzsche

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche


Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
Friedrich Nietzsche


Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche

E.E. Cummings

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
e. e. cummings


i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go, my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
                                                     
 i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)
e.e. cummings

Crowley

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
Aleister Crowley

Huxley

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley


To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Aldous Huxley


Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Aldous Huxley


The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Aldous Huxley

Walt Whitman

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman


Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
Walt Whitman
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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
Walt Whitman

Blake

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake


To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
William Blake


If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake

Vincent Van Gogh

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
Vincent Van Gogh


I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
Vincent Van Gogh

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lao Tzu

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu


Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu


A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu


Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu


Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu


Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Lao Tzu

Kurt Vonnegut

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
Kurt Vonnegut


Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut


Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
Kurt Vonnegut


Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
Kurt Vonnegut

 Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
Kurt Vonnegut


Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut

Hunter S. Thompson

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson


I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.
Hunter S. Thompson


You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.
Hunter S. Thompson


A word to the wise is infuriating.
Hunter S. Thompson

Galileo

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
Galileo Galilei

 The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo Galilei


We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
Galileo Galilei

Zappa

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
Frank Zappa


If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
Frank Zappa

 It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
Frank Zappa


There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
Frank Zappa

 Without deviation progress is not possible.
Frank Zappa


All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
Frank Zappa

Hubbard

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard


Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard

 A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard


Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Elbert Hubbard

 To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

 In order to have friends, you must first be one.
Elbert Hubbard

Lovecraft

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
H. P. Lovecraft


Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.
H. P. Lovecraft


I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
H. P. Lovecraft

Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
H. P. Lovecraft


The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft

Shakespeare

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare


Expectation is the root of all heartache.
William Shakespeare


Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare


If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare


God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
William Shakespeare


Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare


As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare

Confucius Say

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius


Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius


If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Confucius


To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius


Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius


Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

 The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Confucius

The Lizard King

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison


People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
Jim Morrison

 Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
Jim Morrison