Kevin's favorite quotes

"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness."
— Woody Allen

102 people liked it

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)

tags: love

2,775 people liked it

"I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer."
— Woody Allen

tags: humor, life, sex

1,099 people liked it

"Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you."
— Philip Roth

5 people liked it

"The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it."
— Woody Allen

tags: sex

211 people liked it

"How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home."
— Thomas Harris

4 people liked it

"Get busy living or get busy dying."
— Stephen King (Shawshank Redemption)

tags: life

873 people liked it

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work...I want to achieve it by not dying."
— Woody Allen

tags: life

230 people liked it

"You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature."
— Philip Roth (American Pastoral)

tags: human, intelligence, nature

14 people liked it

"God is silent. Now if only man would shut up."
— Woody Allen

tags: god, humor, mankind, silence

182 people liked it

"If you wait, all that happens is that you get older."
— Larry McMurtry

25 people liked it

"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon."
— Woody Allen

tags: life

75 people liked it

"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak."
— Larry McMurtry (In a Narrow Grave : Essays on Texas)

10 people liked it

"I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social."
— Woody Allen

tags: misanthrope

69 people liked it

"If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won't be stopped."
— Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove)

4 people liked it

"The self-prepared dinner is a great time killer for lonely people and as much time should be spent on it as possible."
— Steve Martin (Shopgirl)

8 people liked it

"The wicked at heart probably know something."
— Woody Allen (Without Feathers)

tags: humor

11 people liked it

"The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing

37 people liked it

"It's pain that changes our lives."
— Steve Martin (Shopgirl: A Novella)

85 people liked it

"There’s a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt."
— Gena Showalter (Oh My Goth)

tags: life

30 people liked it

"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."
— Steve Martin

tags: art, humor

118 people liked it

"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
— Stephen King

tags: -on, from, writing-

319 people liked it

"When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous."
— Ernest Hemingway (The Garden of Eden)

27 people liked it

"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."
— Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

949 people liked it

"I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor

23 people liked it

"I have the heart of a small boy...and I keep it in a jar on my desk."
— Stephen King

tags: dark-humor

251 people liked it

"Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around."
— Stephen King

tags: art, on-writing

66 people liked it

"I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things."
— Jonathan Safran Foer

tags: life

154 people liked it

"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters."
— Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

335 people liked it

"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living"
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

tags: life

645 people liked it

"I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."
— Jonathan Safran Foer

146 people liked it

"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."
— Jonathan Safran Foer

164 people liked it

"She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet."
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

105 people liked it

"Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future."
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

138 people liked it

"People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobodies worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss."
— Nick Hornby (High Fidelity)

tags: music, sad

469 people liked it

"One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection."
— Nick Hornby (A Long Way Down)

tags: introspection

32 people liked it

"...I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments."
— Nick Hornby (High Fidelity)

tags: characterization, dark, fiction, gordon, humor, insight, personal, rob

48 people liked it

"I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking, between you and me, I have come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains."
— Nick Hornby (High Fidelity: A Novel)

24 people liked it

"Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice."
— Nick Hornby (A Long Way Down)

tags: belong

22 people liked it

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