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"It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart."
— Ecclesiastes

tags: bible, deat, feasting, mourning, reflection
1 person liked it

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn to the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
— Frank Herbert (Dune)

tags: motivational, scifi
378 people liked it

"I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to."
— Jimi Hendrix

tags: death, life
1,082 people liked it

"In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives trying to create a masterpiece."
— Eddie Murphy

tags: creative, creator, made, self
1 person liked it

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
— Mark Twain

tags: death, life
1,692 people liked it

"Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now."
— Christopher Paolini (Eldest)

tags: inspirational
399 people liked it

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,636 people liked it

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
4,460 people liked it

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: humor, philosophy
844 people liked it

"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: lies, lying, trust
1,264 people liked it

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: corruption, dark, fighting, monsters, side, soul
366 people liked it

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

277 people liked it

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: corruption, individuality, peer-pressure, youth
101 people liked it

"Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

3 people liked it

"Man is a rope, tied between beast and Superman--a rope over an abyss."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

4 people liked it

"We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

3 people liked it

"the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: awakened, beauty, gentle, voice
4 people liked it

"Hell is other people."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (No Exit: A Play in One Act)

tags: hell, people
124 people liked it

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased."
— Heber J. Grant

tags: inspirational
22 people liked it

"When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: insanity, perseverence, sanity
74 people liked it

"Certain motherfuckers think they can fuck with my shit, but you can't kill the Rooster. You might can fuck him up some times, but, bitch, nobody kills the motherfucking Roster. You know what I'm saying?"
— David Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty One Day)

tags: family, perseverance, rooster, self-preservation
61 people liked it

"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: perseverance
46 people liked it

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
— Marie Curie

25 people liked it

""The difference between what we do
and what we are capable of doing
would suffice to solve most of the
world's problems.""
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: perseverence
12 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,414 people liked it

"To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: education
66 people liked it

"Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: america, history, immigration, politics, revolution, united-states, usa
46 people liked it

"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: enemies, friendship, judgement
68 people liked it

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: happiness
36 people liked it

"We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: economics, greed
12 people liked it

"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. "
— Charles Bukowski

463 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)

347 people liked it

"“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose”"
— Charles Bukowski

72 people liked it

"there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock"
— Charles Bukowski (Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems, 1974-1977)

tags: loneliness
51 people liked it

"each man's hell is in a different
place: mine is just up and
behind
my ruined
face."
— Charles Bukowski

31 people liked it

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

20 people liked it

"What we don't understand we can make mean anything."
— Chuck Palahniuk

106 people liked it

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown"
— H.P. Lovecraft

68 people liked it

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

25 people liked it

"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
— Robert E. Howard

tags: humor, life, politics, society
59 people liked it

"My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed."
— Robert E. Howard

tags: barbarism, civilization
8 people liked it

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