Gab's favorite quotes

"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."
— George Gordon Byron

tags: life

64 people liked it

"Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine."
— George Gordon Byron

tags: laughter, medicine

22 people liked it

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

2,947 people liked it

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception."
— Groucho Marx

357 people liked it

"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."
— Karl Marx

19 people liked it

"Religion is the Opiate of the Masses."
— Karl Marx (Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right)

tags: philosophical

25 people liked it

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. "
— George Orwell

tags: language, politics

233 people liked it

"War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength."
— George Orwell (1984)

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

218 people liked it

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
— Salvador Dalí

12 people liked it

"Do you hate people?

I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around."
— Charles Bukowski (The Movie: Barfly)

365 people liked it

"Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them."
— Charles Bukowski

70 people liked it

"Bad taste makes more millionaires than good taste."
— Charles Bukowski

22 people liked it

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it."
— Karl Marx

tags: politic

44 people liked it

"Sólo salgo para renovar la necesidad de estar solo."
— George Gordon Byron

1 person liked it

"The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!"
— Auguste Rodin

4 people liked it

"I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

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— Frida Kahlo

tags: paint

29 people liked it

"I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim."
— Frida Kahlo

33 people liked it

"When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
— Pablo Picasso

50 people liked it

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art, truth

443 people liked it

"El sabio no dice todo lo que piensa, pero siempre piensa todo lo que dice."
— Aristóteles

1 person liked it

"Es ignorancia no saber distinguir entre lo que necesita demostración y lo que no la necesita."
— Aristóteles

1 person liked it

"El hombre ha nacido libre y por doquiera se encuentra sujeto con cadenas."
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

2 people liked it

"La sociedad pervierte al ser humano."
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1 person liked it

"Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece"
— Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita)

tags: life

44 people liked it

"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta."
— Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita)

tags: amazing, writing

122 people liked it

"A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession."
— E. M. Cioran (A Short History of Decay)

3 people liked it

"If we could truly see ourselves the way others see us we'd disappear on the spot."
— Émile Michel Cioran

7 people liked it

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